AAMC FL#2 - CARS Q&A

The author implies which of the following about clinical practice? A.Some physicians tend to give clinical experience undue preeminence over research experience. B.Even at its best, clinical experience is anarchic. C.The role of clinical experience in the practice of medicine is overly complex. D.Physicians embrace clinical experience primarily because it gives priority to their own intuitions. - Answer- **I GOT THIS WRONG, I PUT C. Answer: A Foundations of Comprehension Question - Identify the author's position about a passage topic (clinical medicine) Author states: "Unfortunately, some physicians consider information derived from clinical experience to be sacrosanct and above questioning" B) It is NOT the author but "economists and other health experts" who "view...clinical experience as... uncontrollable, chaotic, and obeying few rules." C) overstatement - "overly complex." Author does not necessarily imply that clinical experience is "overly" complex. D) Not mentioned. Which of the following is most illustrative of "the illusory correlation bias" (paragraph 3), as it is described in the passage? A.A flutist sometimes performs a difficult trill correctly, and sometimes does not, and is unable to determine the cause of her inconsistency. B.An athlete looks like she has mastered the pole vaulting technique, but since she never actually clears the bar, her coach calls her mastery an illusion. C.A teacher measures his students' performance, praises them in hopes their performance will improve, and then measures their performance again, to assess the effect of the praise. D.A dog trainer attributes a dog's correct response to "Lie down" to the dog's training, but