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The teaching of history‐taking and diagnostic thinking: description of a method
Author(s) -
BER ROSALIE,
ALROY G.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1981.tb02404.x
Subject(s) - complement (music) , medical history , psychology , teaching method , computer science , medical education , mathematics education , medicine , surgery , chemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype , biochemistry
Summary This paper describes the use of short videotaped doctor‐patient history‐taking encounters, which demonstrate the generated‐hypothesis‐verifying (GHV) method of enquiry. We urge that this method be taught formally to medical students, to complement the classical ‘rigid’ method of history taking.