Taking Patient History 1.1
This course utilizes patient cases across a broad spectrum of body systems to help students develop in their ability to accurately and reliably generate patient HPI.
Contents
Description
Obtaining a patient history is one of the most critical skills any healthcare professional can learn, and in fact, up to 80% of diagnoses can be made by investigating a patient’s history alone. This course is uniquely tailored to develop your patient history-taking skills. Common HPI writing systems such as OLDCARTS, PQRST, etc. can be applied to the cases presented in this course. The course progresses in difficulty in such a way that from start to finish, you’ll find yourself filling in more knowledge gaps with each patient case. Upon completion of the course, you will have learned how to obtain an accurate patient history and convey it in a concise, reliable manner.
Learning objectives
- Understand the importance of all aspects of a patient’s history, whether they be physical, social, or psychological.
- Develop competencies in applying history-taking methodologies that address the chief complaint (e.g. “OLDCARTS” or “PQRST”) when compiling a comprehensive patient history.
- Learn to integrate outside knowledge of common physical disease processes when focusing your patient interview and history-taking.
- Utilize information obtained from history, physical exam findings, and initial laboratory data to develop a problems list and/or differential diagnoses.
- Generate a comprehensive patient-centered assessment that incorporates potential diagnostic approaches and therapeutic interventions for each of the patient’s primary concerns.
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