Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to C Whitehouse.
Difficulties in the development of primary health care teams have been demonstrated by a number of authors. The important place of interdisciplinary teaching in this development had been stressed. This paper describes an experimental series in which emphasis has been placed on the patient's view of the input of different team members. The value of this approach is discussed.
This paper describes a series of communication workshops designed to improve the consultation skills of third-year clinical medical students during their period of attachment in general practice, and to enable them to understand the differences in perspective and attitude existing between doctor and patient and their effect on the process and outcome of the clinical interview. The workshops involve a group of professional actors as simulated patients. The advantages of this method are discussed in terms of increased lay participation in the teaching.
The chemical pathology requests on 180 000 patients a year are stored on microfiche, occupying 72 mm of shelf space. They are produced by a sequence of three computer programs which remove data from disc on to magnetic tape using the laboratory's Digital Equipment Corporation PDP 11/34 minicomputer. Processing on to microfiche is performed by a bureau. The magnetic tape is available for retrospective research and management studies in one-month periods.