A clinical medicine level test at Jinan University School of Medicine reveals the importance of training medical students in clinical history-taking.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds

Training in the basic interview skills of clinical history-taking has always been a significant component of medical education.

Purpose

This study was designed to identify the factors influence medical students' history-taking skills learning and develop a way to improve these skills.

Methods

We firstly analysed the academic performance of medical students at Jinan University School of Medicine in different disciplines of the Clinical Medicine Level Test (CMLT), to ensure the students have obtained comprehensive medical education prior to beginning their clinical internships. Next, we conducted a survey among the CMLT participants to seek the underlying causes and corresponding measures to improve history-taking in the future. Before these medical students

SUBMITTER: Meng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10062337 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature