The Medical Interview, 4th Edition

Authors still updating for 4^th edition – new chapters to be added on Health System Dissemination, Professionalism, and Electronic Medical Records.

1. Learning to Interview Using the Three Function Approach: Introduction and Overview
2. Three Functions: The Basic Model
3. Function One: Build the Relationship
4. Function Two: Assess and Understand
5. Function Three: Collaborate for Management

UNIT 2 Meeting the Patient

6. Ten Common Concerns

UNIT 3 Structure of the Interview

7. Opening the Interview
8. Chief Complaint, Problem Survey, Patient’s Perspective, and Agenda Setting
9. History of Present Illness
10. Past Medical History
11. Family History
12. Patient Profile and Social History
13. Review of Systems
14. Mental Status

UNIT 4 Presentation and Documentation

15. Presentation and Documentation

UNIT 5 Understanding Patients’ Emotional Responses to Chronic Illness

16. Understanding Chronic Illness: Normal Reactions
17. Understanding Chronic Illness: Maladaptive Reactions

UNIT 6 Advanced Applications

18. Stepped-Care Advanced Skills for Action Planning
19. Communicating with Patients with Chronic Illness
20. Health Literacy and Communicating Complex Information for Decision Making
21. Sexual Issues in the Interview
22. Interviewing Elderly Patients
23. Culturally Competent Medical Interviewing
24. Family Interviewing
25. Troubling Personality Styles and Somatization
26. Communicating with the Psychotic Patient
27. Breaking Bad News

27A Sharing Difficult or Bad News: A Nine-Step Process of Transformation

28. Disclosure of Medical Errors and Apology
29. Risky Drinking and Interviewing About Alcohol Use

UNIT 7 Higher Order Skills

30. Nonverbal Communication
31. Use of the Self in Medical Care
32. Using Psychological Principles in the Medical Interview
33. Integrating Structure and Function: Diagnostic Reasoning, Clinical Inference, Communication Flexibility, and Rules

Appendix 1 The Medical Interview: The Three Function Approach Table of Skills

Appendix 2 The Brief Action Planning Guide

Appendix 3 Learning How to Interview

Index