Feletti G I, Carney S L
Med Educ. 1984 Jan;18(1):15-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1984.tb01470.x.
Two studies are reported which examine the use and credibility of patients' reports of medical students' clinical interviewing skills. In the first study patients' high satisfaction via a standard rating form tended to match clinicians' assessment of second-year students' history-taking and physical examination skills. A second study used pre-defined 'ideal' and 'not-ideal' bedside roles by a small group of fourth-year students to examine how perceptive or tolerant hospital inpatients are about clinical interviews, whether this effect is sex-linked, and consequently how useful direct and indirect information obtained from patients is in training medical students' interviewing skills.
