THE PATIENT INTERVIEW
2025-2026 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
   

DC 3132 - THE PATIENT INTERVIEW


Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Highlighting the biopsychosocial model, this course will focus on the essential elements of the chief complaint, past, social, and family histories in order to form a rational differential diagnosis list. Additionally, the student will learn how taking a thorough history is essential to creating a patient problem list beyond their chief complaint as a holistic approach to health care. Students will become facile in motivational interviewing skills. The use of simulated patients will allow students to receive formative feedback as they develop this essential component of clinical reasoning.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade
Course Requirements: Restricted to Doctor of Chiropractic (CHIRO-DCH)


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