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Recording a Patient’s Personal/Psychosocial History and Examination of Asymptomatic Persons

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During my undergraduate training, I had no difficulty in recording the sections of a patient’s history that required responses to specific questions, such as demographic data, family history, and review of systems. However, I did have problems in recording the sections of a patient’s history that required a narrative report, namely, the patient’s personal/psychosocial history and history of the present illness.

Previous versions of parts of his chapter were published in: Benbassat J, R Cohen, A Antonovsky. The patient’s personality profile. J Med Ed, 1981;56:436-438. With permission by Wolters Kluwer. J Benbassat. The Social Worker’s Record of the Hospitalized Patient. A physician’s perspective. Isr J Psychiatry 33:246–252, 1996. With permission by Gefen Publishing House. J Benbassat, R Baumal. Viewpoint: A proposal for teaching basic clinical skills for mastery: the case against vertical integration. Acad Med 82:83–91, 2007. With permission by Wolters Kluwer.

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Benbassat, J. (2015). Recording a Patient’s Personal/Psychosocial History and Examination of Asymptomatic Persons. In: Teaching Professional Attitudes and Basic Clinical Skills to Medical Students. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20089-7_12

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