- Are you looking to explores effective interviewing techniques doctors and other healthcare professional use to communicate with patients?
- Do you want to learn some of the basics through an online course?

If this is the case then this package is just what you require. The package here contains a course that has been designed to help you develop the basic skills and knowledge needed to conduct doctor-patient interviews. This course will certainly help you in getting useful information regarding this particular subject.

What is this course, who should take this course and what are the benefits of taking it?

This freshman level online course explores effective interviewing techniques doctors and other healthcare professional use to communicate with patients. Through this introductory class, you will develop the basic skills and knowledge needed to conduct doctor-patient interviews to collect necessary information and data, such as a patient’s medical history. Additionally, this course will focus on methods of building positive and trusting relationships with patients. You will learn how to empathize and carefully listen to patients’ needs and concerns to build a healthy rapport with them.

Table of Contents:

- Introduction and Demonstration
- Introduction to Foundations of Patient Care
- Introduction to Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly
- Basics: Professionalism & Interviewing Techniques
- Introduction to History Taking
- Talking with Psych Patients and Patients' Psyches: What Do I Do if the Patient Cries
- Interviewing Opportunities and Challenges
- Health Literacy Implications for Health Status and Clinical Practice
- Interviewing: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Objective of the Course

- Interact respectfully with peers about a clinical interaction
- Provide specific feedback to peers that highlights both strengths and areas for improvement
- Receive feedback in a non-defensive manner and respond to suggestions
- Summarize information collected concisely, construct a coherent, organized and accurate life story, and medical history of the patient, and present it orally to peers
- Translate an interpersonal interaction with a patient into a coherent, organized and accurate written summary as described in the journal instructions
- Discuss concepts addressed in lectures
- Apply lecture topics to encounters with patient/residents

Author Bio

Jonathan Schindelheim is the instructor for this course.