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PURPOSE To compare the effect of two learning opportunities, clinician feedback and video self-assessment, on 5th-year chiropractic students' patient communication skills, specifically those required for history taking. METHODS A cohort of 51 final-year students was divided into two groups. The first group received immediate feedback from a clinical supervisor following a history-taking encou...

a 2-year-old boy was born at term of healthy, non-consanguineous iranian parents. his mother attended in the clinic with the history of sometimes discoloration of diapers after passing urine. she noticed that first at the age of one month with intensified in recent months. his physical examination and growth parameters were normal. his mother denied taking any medication (sorbitol, nitrofuranto...

Sao Paulo Med J 2003; 121(6):223. Dinosaurs were declared extinct many centuries ago. Mankind cannot now do anything to undo this for itself. In an article in 1996, Schechter et al. say in their first line: “Skilled historytaking is in danger of becoming a lost art”. Mankind, and doctors especially, can and must do their best to prevent this extinction. Hampton et al., in 1975, stated that hist...

Background and Objectives: Among the clinical skills needed by all physicians, history taking is one of the most important. The teaching model for peer-assisted history-taking groups investigated in the present study consists of small-group courses in which students practice conducting medical interviews with real patients. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the expectations, ex...

background: non-accidental burns may not be detected unless a complete history of the accident and a detailed physical examination is obtained. self-inflicted burns are a regular source of admission to burn units. case presentation: an 11 year old boy with multiple localized burn injuries was brought to the emergency department of burn hospital by his mother. the lesions were in different symme...