Recently, a conversation around how to structure dialogue in the "History" section between student and patients came up. We thought the group would benefit from the details of the discussion...
Questions:
How are you dealing with history taking?
How many questions should be included page, and how should they be lumped together?
Does the rollover function in the CASUS software allow us to separate questions out more than previously – when the cost of each question was one click?
Response:
Excellent questions, indeed. With the click-and-wait in the
previous software version we knew we were choosing to limit irritation
over modeling the bad habit of asking two questions at once.
The new mouse over functionality makes the answer to this question even more subtle, however. Here is how we suggest approaching this:
1) First, limit scrolling -> which may mean breaking the questions up
into two screen cards.
2) Although there is no longer the click-and-wait issue, you will still
lose students' attention if there are too many questions in a row.
Therefore, I would still ask yourself if each question is truly needed,
and ensure that the patient answers remain somewhat "rich" -> which
means modeling asking open-ended questions.
3) Look at the questions in order and by themselves. Do they model a sort of "script" that a student could then use to ask a similar patient in
clinic?
4) Make sure that subsequent questions don't "give away" info from
previous patient questions.
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Can you remind me how to indicate in the card that I want something to be in a roll over?
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Here is an answer from Leslie Fall:
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