DEX25: Diagnostic Excellence 2025 Meeting
Monday, October 27 - Wednesday, October 29
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
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Key Takeaways
Award Winners
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Co-host DEX26
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About DEX25
The goal of the Diagnostic Excellence 2025 meeting (DEX25) is to bring together experts, learners, early career professionals, researchers, educators, and patients to advance diagnostic excellence through scientific presentations, community building, and mutual goal setting.
This year's co-hosts are UCSF CODEX, the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Center for Diagnostic Excellence at the University of Michigan, and CIDM (Community Improving Diagnosis in Medicine).
This meeting for the community is dedicated to improving diagnosis in health care. These are the proceedings:
- Will commence with presentations reviewing the trajectory of efforts to promote diagnostic excellence and a state-of-the-science review and discussion.
- Present and discuss research advances and ongoing studies through both open discussions and presentations of oral abstracts and posters.
- Will include sessions focused on measurement and assessment of progress in improving diagnosis.
- Will include designated sessions to present advances in clinical reasoning, how to teach these skills, and how to optimize clinical reasoning in practice, designed with medical educators in mind.
- A highlight throughout will be considerations of how AI, ‘the new kid on the block’ can be used to promote diagnostic excellence in research, education, and practice.
Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the current state of diagnostic safety in healthcare and the progress that has been made over the past decade.
- List some of the most common cognitive biases that lead to diagnostic error and describe ways to avoid these in clinical reasoning.
- Find and use recently developed tools, surveys, and evaluation instruments that can be used to measure diagnostic performance and outcomes.
- Use already-available AI tools to assist in differential diagnosis.
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Key Takeaways
- The Future of Diagnosis: Medical education will shift toward knowledge synthesis and interpretation, integrating human expertise with AI tools. Our panelists predicted improvements in time-to-diagnosis, driven by patient engagement and home-based testing, but they warned that diagnostic disparities could worsen without equitable AI implementation.
- Precision Medical Education is Here: AI is moving from concept to reality in medical training, with institutions using it to track clinical experiences and provide customized feedback to residents and fellows, which is a significant evolution from "see one, do one, teach one."
- Patient Perceptions Matter: Multiple presentations revealed that the risk of diagnostic errors peaks when patients present with nonspecific or undifferentiated symptoms and clinicians do not perform thorough assessments or accurately synthesize data. Also, system-wide programs can enhance diagnostic processes by implementing effective follow-up of abnormal test results, particularly in cancer diagnosis.
- AI Hype to Reality: The field has transitioned from AI hype to a nuanced understanding of practical use cases and limitations. Cautious optimism is emerging as evaluation strategies and appropriate applications become clearer.
- Diagnostic Excellence Benefits Everyone: Michigan Medicine demonstrated that improving diagnosis isn't just good for patients. It's a clinician wellbeing intervention that reduces burnout and improves the healthcare experience for all.
- Community Strength in Uncertain Times: Despite workforce challenges and funding uncertainty, the diagnostic excellence community has shown remarkable integrity, commitment, and creativity. The work being done is already helping patients, and the growing community offers reason for optimism about the future.
Visit the UCSF CODEX LinkedIn page to view more highlights from our team, DEX25 presenters, and other attendees.
Join the CIDM listserve to continue the conversation, participate in ongoing discussions about diagnostic excellence, and share your own insights with the community.
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Award Winners
Sarah Soppe, MPH (UNC Chapel Hill), swept DEX25's research honors, winning both the Shark Tank competition and the People's Choice Award for Best of the Abstracts for her work addressing challenging yet crucial questions in cancer diagnosis.
David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins University), and Taro Shimizu, MD, PhD, MSc, MPH, MBA (Dokkyo Medical University), were honored with the prestigious Mark L. Graber Diagnostic Quality Award at Monday evening's reception hosted by CIDM.
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Photos
Three days went by fast, but we captured the memories. Browse through our DEX25 photo album to see the sessions, connections, and moments that made the meeting unforgettable. View and download your favorites here and share them with colleagues!
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Session Recordings
Missed a session or want to revisit key insights? Select plenary session recordings from DEX25 are now available here to watch and share. Use them to spark conversations at your institution, refresh your notes, or share what you learned with colleagues who couldn't attend.
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Co-Host DEX26
Interested in bringing DEX26 to your institution? View detailed information here about what co-hosting with UCSF CODEX and CIDM entails, and feel free to reach out to our team with questions.
We kindly request that you share your expression of interest with us by November 30 by emailing us at [email protected].
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CME Information
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Michigan Medical School, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Coordinating Center for Diagnostic Excellence (CODEX), and the Community Improving Diagnosis in Medicine (CIDM). The University of Michigan Medical School is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Michigan Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
To claim your CME credits for attending via the CloudCME portal, please follow the instructions below.
**Please note, the University of Michigan's CME Office now has a strict 7-day credit claiming window. Please be sure to login and claim your credits by Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
How to Claim Credit (via computer)
- Navigate to umich.cloud-cme.com/cme/ClaimCredit?P=850.
- Click "Sign In" in upper left-hand corner and sign in using the appropriate button (UM sign-in or non-UM sign-in).
- Log in using your credentials.
- Click the "Claim Credit" button.
- Enter the Activity ID # (81256).
- Complete attestation and signature fields.
- Click "Claim Credits."
- Complete additional fields.
- Click "Submit."
- After claiming credit, visit the Evaluations and Certificates page to complete your evaluation. You can access that page here: umich.cloud-cme.com/cme/EvalsAndCerts?P=200.
- On the Evaluations and Certificates page, click “Complete Evaluation.”
- Once your evaluations have been submitted, credits are now added to your transcript, which you can access on the Evaluations and Certificates page.
Questions?
Contact Tanner Vincent at [email protected].edu.
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Contact
Please email [email protected] with any questions. Thank you for your interest in DEX25!
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