Teaching Professional Attitudes and Basic Clinical Skills to Medical Students

Jochanan Benbassat, Department of Medicine (retired), Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.Formerly, Professor of Medicine and Chair of Medical Education Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. Professor of Medicine and Chair of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Senior Research Associate, Myers-JDC Brookdale Institute, the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research, Jerusalem, Israel.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Paradigmatic shifts in the theory, practice and teaching of medicine in recent decades.- 3. Teaching behavioral and social sciences to medical students.- 4. Difficulties in learning and teaching patient interviewing.- 5. Overcoming difficulties in teaching patient interviewing.- 6. Doctor-patient relations.- 7. Barriers to doctor-patient communication.- 8. Diagnostic utility of the physical examination and ancillary tests.- 9. Physical-examination skills: learning difficulties.- 10. Learning and teaching physical-examination skills by clinical context.- 11. Recording the clinical data base.- 12. Recording personal and social data and examination of asymptomatic persons.- 13. Recording the patient's history.- 14. Intuitive vs analytic clinical reasoning.- 15. Should clinical training rely on role modeling?.