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History taking

concept · in 4 sources (2017–2018)

Asking a patient about their complaint and background in a set order; the subject of Ali's first teaching session in 2017.

Sources by year: 2017: 1 · 2018: 3

Also named in the threads: Ali's final year at Cambridge medical school (2017)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Jake (2) · Katherine (2) · spaced repetition (2) · Cambridge (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018

  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For history taking and OSCE exams Ali recommends two books: OSCEs at a Glance and OSCEs for Medical Finals. — 00:23:08
    • To a student down about a bad OSCE history station, as his was too, Ali says feeling down only makes you feel bad: accept what you cannot change, like the serenity prayer, and move on. — 00:27:14
  • 2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — Ali: For his neurological systems review Ali grouped the eight or nine questions he needed to ask into four categories, so that he only had to learn four things rather than nine. — 00:01:13
    • Practising history-taking cases in a group with Seb, Ali and his friends read out a patient's presentation, fall silent while everyone thinks or writes down possible diagnoses, then discuss: everyone practises active recall and nobody is spoon-fed, since each will take the exam alone. — 00:06:16
    • The night before, Ali says the first of his final OSCE exams is the next day: five stations, four of them history taking and one challenging station that will be a mystery; he feels quite relaxed about it. — 00:07:15
  • …and 1 statement more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

Also named in: Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36

2017

  • 2017-10-12 · My first lecture for medical students - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #09 — Ali: At 5pm Ali gives a talk on systematic history taking in obstetrics and gynaecology to students in the year below. — 00:00:00
    • Ali calls his talk the presentation he wishes someone had given him a year earlier: a very prescriptive approach to systematically taking an obstetrics and gynaecology history. — 00:00:45
    • Ali says his first medical teaching session went quite well: it was really scary to give, but people seemed to enjoy it and rated it excellent throughout on the feedback form. — 00:01:09