Using elderly disabled patients to teach history taking and physical examination

History Taking and Physical Examination—Essentials and Clinical Correlates

tissue structure, then goes on to examine types and causes of cellular damage and the subsequent patterns of disease responses. A section on trauma, for example, illustrates a subdural hemorrhage, a gunshot wound, and fat emboli, among others. The text accompanying each chapter, however, remains predominantly brief and generally emphasizes the histological appearance, more so than the pathologi...

The use of virtual patients to teach medical students history taking and communication skills.

BACKGROUND At most institutions, medical students learn communication skills through the use of standardized patients (SPs), but SPs are time and resource expensive. Virtual patients (VPs) may offer several advantages over SPs, but little data exist regarding the use of VPs in teaching communication skills. Therefore, we report our initial efforts to create an interactive virtual clinical scena...

Using video-taped examples of standardized patient to teach medical students taking informed consent

Introduction: Medical student should be trained in medicalethics and one of the most essential issues in this field is takinginformed consents. In this research, we compared the effect ofeffectiveness of teaching methods on students’ ability in takinginformed consent from patients.Methods: This semi-experimental study was carried out on fiftyeight subjects from the 4th-year students of Shiraz U...

Key Components of the History Taking and the Physical Examination in Children with Chronic Idiopathic Constipation

Clinical history-taking and physical examination in medical practice in Africa: still relevant?

Advancement in technology is continually redefining the practice of medicine globally, with sophisticated diagnostic machines, investigative procedures, and medical tests now widely available for medical diagnosis. Indeed, new discoveries, devices, and the internet have positively influenced the way physicians diagnose, treat, and palliate diseases. However, unlike in many high-income settings,...