Use of interactive video in teaching history-taking to medical students: a pilot project.
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Publications and source records attributed to M H Briscoe.
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This paper describes the use of a home microcomputer to produce a highly versatile yet relatively inexpensive interactive video system. The program has been designed to introduce medical students to the examination of the mentally ill patient, but the technique is ideally suited to demonstrate examination and treatment techniques in all medical specialties.
The response of patients with major depressive illness to citalopram of amitriptyline was compared in a double-blind multi-centre trial. No differences in efficacy were observed, but citalopram had less hypnotic effect, and a remarkably lower profile of side-effects.