For this assignment you will research a disease or condition of your choice. You will then create a fictitious patient who has the disease/condition. On a sheet of paper you will record information about this patient as if you were the doctor interviewing them. Write down their preliminary information first. Then, write down the questions that you will ask them and the answer to each question based on your research into the disease/condition. For “non-relevant” questions, make up the answer as you see fit. Finally, write down the specific tests you may order and the physical examination findings associated with this disease/condition. You will be graded on the completeness of this sheet.
For the second part of this assignment, you will get into pairs during class. One person will play the doctor and the other the patient. The patient will have the disease they researched and answer the doctor’s questions in accordance with their completed sheet. The doctor must take notes regarding their questions and the answers to those questions. The patient should only give the information the doctor asks for and the question must be relatively specific. For example, in the physical part the doctor should say he/she orders an x-ray so what are the results. It would be incorrect for the doctor to ask, “what are the results of the whole physical”. If the doctor orders an irrelevant test then the patient should simply say the results were “within normal limits”. In the end, the doctor should have a sheet that looks very similar to the patient’s disease sheet and should take a guess at the diagnosis. The doctor will be graded on the completeness of this sheet.
After one doctor finishes, the partners will switch roles. The doctor may not use any notes while asking questions. He/she will only have a blank sheet of paper to write on.
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