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"Cognitive bias, previously discussed here, is common in medicine and emergency medicine (EM). Metacognition, discussed in this post, can mitigate cognitive error by evaluating one's thinking. Although this seems esoteric, especially to the trainee, there are some concrete ways to go work though this process. "

Simply put, writing effective questions is easier than it might seem. You will more often than not observe gains from the very act of engaging your student in the mind tasks of metacognition and retrieval practice and then peer discussion. The questions will of course improve once you get feed back from students and make tweaks.