Aspects of a teaching development intended to encourage patient-centredness in medical interviewing is discussed. Patients are asked by their local general practitioner to volunteer their time in order to be interviewed by medical students and then to stay on afterwards to discuss their impressions of the students' behaviour. It is argued that this approach to teaching interviewing skills enables students to examine the assumptions they make about the patient and to become aware of their difficulties in discussing sensitive issues.
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