History-taking Behaviors Associated with Diagnostic Competence of Clerks

Significance of experts' overall ratings for medical student competence in relation to history-taking.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Overall ratings (ORs) of competence, given by expert physicians, are increasingly used in clinical skills assessments. Nevertheless, the influence of specific components of competence on ORs is incompletely understood. The aim here was to investigate whether ORs for medical student history-taking competence are influenced by performance relating to communication skills, co...

History taking as a diagnostic test in patients with syncope: developing expertise in syncope.

Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Family Medicine, Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Cardiology, Academic, Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; SEIN – Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland, Heemstede, The Netherlands; Department ...

Heritability for Stroke: Essential for Taking Family History

 There are many well-established factors that influence the risk of stroke including blood pressure, diabetes, low socioeconomic status and smoking, however, the shared genetic resource in members of a family effect on stroke predisposition. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have demonstrated evidence of a shared genetic source in stroke risk. This review considered the influence of family...

Association of risk-taking behaviors with adolescent childbearing.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk-taking behavior has been shown to be associated with adolescent pregnancy or childbearing. However, the specific risk-taking behavioral factors and the extent to which they are associated with adolescent childbearing is less clear. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk-taking behavioral factors associated with adolescent childbearing. METHODS In this ...

Running head: ANXIETY SENSITIVTY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS Dowd 1 Anxiety Sensitivity and Risk-Taking Behaviors