Teaching history taking to medical students: A systematic review

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Keifenheim, Katharina E ^a   Teufel, Martin ^a   Ip, Julianne ^b   Speiser, Natalie ^a   Leehr, Elisabeth J ^a   Zipfel, Stephan ^a,c   Herrmann Werner, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

History taking; Interview skills; Medical history; Medical interview; Medical students; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROCEDURES; TEACHING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 84942523575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-015-0443-x     Document Type: Review

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