Sensitizing Medical Students to Impression Formation Processes in the Patient Interview.

Breytspraak, Linda M.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ150466

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Publication Date: 1977

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Sensitizing Medical Students to Impression Formation Processes in the Patient Interview

Breytspraak, Linda M.; And Others

Journal of Medical Education, 52, 1, 47-54, Jan 77

Medical students in a course that included instruction in patient interviewing participated in an experiment devised to alert them to sources of bias that might influence their judgments and management of patients. Suggestions are made for incorporating such sensitization experiments in the medical curriculum. (Author/LBH)

Descriptors: Bias, Clinical Diagnosis, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Interviews, Medical Students, Patients, Physicians, Social Attitudes

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