Spring 2016

The purpose of the course is to teach students to take and appropriately chart a comprehensive patient history. Students will learn the introductory, basic legal requirements for charting, listening skills and strategies, interviewing skills and strategies, general clinical decision making strategies, chief complaint, past health, family health, and personal and social history taking skills as well as review of systems. The lab portion for this course allows students to practice listening/communication skills, history taking skills and properly documenting a comprehensive patient history. By the end of this course students will be able to take and correctly chart from memory a comprehensive patient history.