Profiling physiotherapy students’ interactions patterns in history taking

Teaching history taking to medical students: a systematic review

BACKGROUND This paper is an up-to-date systematic review on educational interventions addressing history taking. The authors noted that despite the plethora of specialized training programs designed to enhance students' interviewing skills there had not been a review of the literature to assess the quality of each published method of teaching history taking in undergraduate medical education ba...

The Effect of Employing Standardized Patient on History Taking Skills of Medical Students

Introduction: Using Standardized Patient (SP) in teaching history taking provides medical students with an opportunity to learn how to communicate with patients. A Standardized Patient is a person who has been carefully coached to simulate an actual patient so accurately. This study was performed to assess the effect of using SP on improving history taking skill of third year medical students. ...

Learning Physiotherapy: Physiotherapy students' ways of experiencing the patient encounter

Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 1 Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 2 ABSTRACT Background: The aim of the present paper is to describe and analyse the impact of

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...

Taking charge of change: a new career structure in physiotherapy.