DEMONSTRATION
Headache Interactive
Mark Mumenthaler M.D., Professor Emeritus,
ABSTRACT:
Headache is one of
the most common diseases - nevertheless are most medical doctors (with the exception
of neurologists) not able to recognize the different types clearly and treat
them well. This is due to a leak in our medical education - and to the
difficulty for teachers to show their decision-making pathways clearly. Often
medical teachers are thinking, that their knowledge is not teachable - so
students and young medical doctors have just to work as long together with them
until the knowledge has infected them somehow. This program shows patients
while the history taking has been performed - while showing this, it reveals
the meta-level of a specialists analysis. So the pathway of history taking, the
diagnostic reasoning and the differential diagnosis become clear to the
student. To provide self-assessment, a quiz-section has been added where simulated
patients provide realistic answers to the students full-text questions.
BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:
This program shows
how medical history taking skills can be learned and exercised with the help of
computers, so the student is better prepared when encountering real patients.
Mark Mumenthaler
Witikonerstr. 326
8053 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone: ++41 (1) 381 7685
mailto:mumenthaler33@bluewin.ch
CO-AUTHORS:
Christof Daetwyler
IML (Interactive
Media Laboratory)
Dartmouth Medical
School
Colburn Hill, One
Medical Center Drive, Apt 204 Lebanon, NH 03756
USA
Phone: ++1 (603) 653
1508
mailto:christof.j.daetwyler@dartmouth.edu
Website: http://iml.dartmouth.edu/cda/