Main Focus
- strategies for reducing diagnostic errors
- collaborative medical decision making
- confidence and calibration
- wisdom of crowds
Curriculum Vitae
2020 - 2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, Diagnostic Quality Lab, Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
2019 - 2020 Research scientist at the Institute of Health and Nursing Science at the Charité University Hospital Berlin
2015 - 2020 Postdoc/research scientist, Center for Adaptive Rationality, MPIB
2013 Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat., with summa cum laude), Humboldt University Berlin
2009 Diploma in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.; Master's equivalent), Humboldt University Berlin
Selected literature
* shared authorships / equal contribution
Kämmer, J. E., Hautz, W. E., & März, M. (2020). Self-monitoring accuracy does not increase throughout undergraduate medical education. Medical Education, 54(4), 320-327. doi:10.1111/medu.14057
Kämmer, J. E., Hautz, W. E., Herzog, S. M., Kunina-Habenicht, O., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2017). The potential of collective intelligence in emergency medicine: Pooling medical students' independent decisions improves diagnostic performance. Medical Decision Making, 37, 715-724. doi:10.1177/0272989X17696998
Hautz, S. C., Schuler, L., Kämmer, J. E., Schauber, S. K., Ricklin, M. E., Sauter, T. C., Maier, V., Birrenbach, T., Exadaktylos, A., & Hautz, W. E. (2016). Factors predicting a change in diagnosis in patients hospitalised through the emergency room: A prospective observational study. BMJ Open, 6, e011585. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2016-011585
Hautz, W. E.*, Kämmer, J. E.*, Schauber, S. K., Spies, C. D., & Gaissmaier, W. (2015). Diagnostic performance by medical students working individually or in teams. JAMA, 313, 303-304. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.15770
Moussaïd, M., Kämmer, J. E., Analytis P., P., & Neth, H. (2013). Social influence and the collective dynamics of opinion formation. PLoS One 8(11): e78433. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078433.