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The use of videotape in internal medicine training

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By paying attention to the power of the medium and the method of feedback, videotaping programs can be a remarkably successful teaching and research tool. Learners can view their performance, review feedback on their own behavior, knowledge, and displayed attitudes, and develop plans to change behavior that can be followed up on subsequent tapings. In addition, trainees can share important experiences with each other and valued teachers.

Interviewing skills can be documented and preserved, creating a video library that allows trainees to actually visualize improvements in their own performances over time. An archive of many such performances allows trainees, faculty, and researchers alike comparative access to the complex challenges of the medical interview.

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  1. Primary Care Internal Medicine, Highland Hospital, USA

    Howard B. Beckman MD (Program director, associate professor of medicine)

  2. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

    Howard B. Beckman MD (Program director, associate professor of medicine)

  3. Center for Human Interaction, Highland Hospital, USA

    Richard M. Frankel PhD (Director, associate professor medicine and psychiatry)

  4. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

    Richard M. Frankel PhD (Director, associate professor medicine and psychiatry)

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Supported in part by a grant from Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA, USPHS (PE15262).

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Beckman, H.B., Frankel, R.M. The use of videotape in internal medicine training. J Gen Intern Med 9, 517–521 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02599224

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