Taking Medical History with Actors; Simulation Practices in the MediSkillsLab 1

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

" Taking medical history with actors - simulation practices in the MediSkillsLab" is an interdisciplinary course, where history taking is approached from linguistic, communicative and professional perspectives. Our professional actors - artists of the Pécs National Theatre - are trained for the patient’s role previously.

The scope of the course is detailed and structured internal medical history taking. Simulated patient interviews may be observed, recorded and analyzed during the sessions. Afterwards assessment of the interviews takes place with involvement of medical specialists to provide the authentic professional evaluation.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

• 1. Structure of history taking, parts of the doctor-patient interview.
• 2. Analysis of video-recorded patient interviews highlighting structural elements.
• 3. Linguistic characteristics of the history.
• 4. Politeness tools: greetings, addressing, formal communication.
• 5.

  Paraverbal politeness tools: clinical behavioural code.

  Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 1.

• 6. Assessment guidelines for observation and evaluation of the interview: language and communicative perspectives.
• 7. Assessment guidelines for observation and evaluation of the interview: professional perspectives (involving specialists).
• 8. Interviewing techniques: open and closed questions. Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 2.
• 9. Interviewing techniques: repetition and paraphrasing.
• 10. Interviewing techniques: summary, verification. Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 3. Reporting.
• 11. Typical and atypical patient reactions.
• 12. Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 4.
• 13. Note taking techniques.
• 14. Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 5.
• 15. In class evaluation of the interviews.
• 16. Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 6.
• 17. In class evaluation of the interviews.
• 18. Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 7.
• 19. In class evaluation of the interviews: emotional reactions of the patient.
• 20. Simulated patient interview, history taking in internal medicine 8.
• 21. In class evaluation of the interviews: emotional reactions of the patient.
• 22. Examination of the patient, language tools, polite instructions .
• 23. Assessment.
• 24. Assessment.

Reading material

Obligatory literature

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Literature developed by the Department

Self-made digital educational materials: video-recorded doctor-patient conversations, history-taking interviews.

Eklics-Koppán: Language and Communication Specific Attributes of Medical History

Notes

Eklics-Koppán: Language and Communication Specific Attributes of Medical History

Recommended literature

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Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Besides history taking practices, one individual scenario with an actor is required on breaking bad news.

Mid-term exams

The seminar is practice-based thus assessment of students includes individual history taking scenarios with actor-patients in the simulation lab that are video-recorded, analyzed and finally evaluated. Students are informed about the assessment criteria in the beginning of the semester.

Making up for missed classes

Due to the character of the seminar make-up work for legitimate absences is not feasible.

Exam topics/questions

The seminar is practice-based thus assessment of students includes individual history taking scenarios with actor-patients in the simulation lab that are video-recorded, analyzed and finally evaluated. Students are informed about the assessment criteria in the beginning of the semester.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Bán Ildikó
• Eklicsné Lepenye Katalin
• Fekete Sándor
• Kittka Bálint Pál
• Kozma Petra Kata
• Laczy Boglárka
• Molnár Gergő Attila
• Sándor Zoltán (1968, Farmakológia)
• Sebők Judit
• Sélley Eszter
• Szemán Eszter