Simon Carley talks through the highlights of the February 2017's EMJ. Among these are clinical decision making and the transition from novice to expert.

Here are links to the discussed papers:

Have we forgotten to teach how to think? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/2/68;

The transition to clinical expert: enhanced decision making for children aged less than 5 years attending the paediatric ED with acute respiratory conditions - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/2/76;

Clinical reasoning of junior doctors in emergency medicine: a grounded theory study - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/2/70;

Role of physician perception of patient smile on pretest probability assessment for acute pulmonary embolism - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/2/82;

Clinical metrics in emergency medicine: the shock index and the probability of hospital admission and inpatient mortality - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/2/89;

Dietary sugars versus glucose tablets for first-aid treatment of symptomatic hypoglycaemia in awake patients with diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/2/100.

Read the full issue here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/2#Primarysurvey.