The teaching of history-taking and diagnostic thinking: description of a method.
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.
D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D008487:Medical History Taking; D011340:Problem Solving; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014743:Videotape Recording