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Housestaff Social History Knowledge

Correlation with Evaluation of Interpersonal Skills

Charles H. Griffith

Steven A. Haist

John F. Wilson

Eugene C. Rich

University of Kentucky

It was hypothesized that internal medicine housestaff who inquire into their hospital patients' social histories would be rated by nurses and attendings as having better interpersonal skills. Thirty-seven internal medicine housestaff were asked to answer a questionnaire regarding the social history of up to three of their hospital patients. The score on these questionnaires was then compared to evaluations by nurses and attendings of housestaffs'interpersonalskills. Wefoundthat nurses' evaluations of housestaff interpersonal skills correlated with performance on the social history questionnaire, while attendings' evaluations did not. Social history inquiry by housestaff may be a marker for housestaff humanistic and interpersonal skills.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 19, No. 1, 81-90 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/016327879601900106
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