Online medical history taking course: Opportunities and limitations in comparison to traditional bedside teaching.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Obtaining a systematic medical history (MH) from a patient is a core competency in medical education and plays a vital role in the diagnosis of diseases. At the Faculty of Medicine at LMU Munich, students have their first course in MH taking during their second year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional bedside MH taking course had to be transformed into an online course (OC). Our objectives were to implement an online MH taking course, to evaluate its feasibility and to compare the evaluation results to a historic cohort that had undertaken the traditional bedside teaching course (BTC).

Methods

874 second-year students participated in the OC (BTC=827). After teaching the theoretical background via asynchronous online lectures, students participated in a p

SUBMITTER: Lange S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9469571 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature