241: Screening Efficiency Over Experience: Rethinking Cytology Expertise

Send us Fan Mail Does more experience automatically make a cytotechnologist more accurate—or does where they look first matter more? In DigiPath Digest #50, I review a digital cytology eye-tracking study that challenges the assumption that diagnostic accuracy improves steadily with years of practice. The researchers tracked the visual behavior of 100 board-certified cytotechnologists with 1 to 40…