How to Take a Patient History (full guide) | KharmaMedic

👋🏻 Hey guys! In this video I run through how to take a patient history. This video is a collection of thing's I've learned during my time throughout medical school and from my time spend on hospital wards. I hope you find this video helpful in practicing your history taking technique. It has a lot of information I wish I had a couple of years ago.
Please remember, I am a medical student, NOT a doctor, and I am making this video simply to pass on the information which I have found helpful throughout medical school and which has helped me. This video is not a golden rulebook for history taking, nor the best way to do it, it's my way of doing it.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - 00:55 Disclaimer & Intro
00:55 - 01:48 Before the History
01:48 - 03:13 History Structure
03:13 - 04:45 Approaching the Patient
04:45 - 05:44 Presenting Complaint (PC)
05:44 - 08:13 History of Presenting Complaint (HPC)
08:13 - 09:48 Systems Review (SR)
09:48 - 10:44 Past Medical History (PMHx)
10:44 - 12:11 Drug History (DHx)
12:11 - 13:09 Family History (FHx)
13:09 - 14:16 Social History (SHx)
14:16 - 14:43 Bonus Tip
14:43 - 15:22 Conclusion

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LOL same here

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This is one of the best history taking guides I’ve seen! I’m a first year medical student and I needed this for my mock patient interviews and history taking skills, thank you so much!

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I’m currently applying to medical school so videos like this always get me so excited for what’s to come. Thanks for the video 🙏🏽💜

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From usa?

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As a medical student this was incredibly helpful, thank you very much for this amazing content. I would love to see more of this clinically oriented content now, specially because that’s primarily what you do as a final year student.

[@crescentmoon8946]

This video comes at the perfect time!! I’m in my first year in medical school and we’re just starting to learn history taking. Thanks for the vid!

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We use the acronym OLDCARTS for the HPI. Onset, Location, Duration, Character, Aggravating factors, Relieving factors, Timing, Severity. Usually works with most complaints!

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Very concise and helpful - thank you! I have my first sim patient encounter this coming week and this video has given me a better idea of how to approach the patient.

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Great video. I love how you explain things in such a concise manner

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Lol nice

[@amandaokpoko8641]

Hi Nasir……thanks so much for the video, I currently graduated from medical school right now I am a doctor in Nigeria, it’s amazing to see how similar taking patient history are following the same pattern with slight difference….. appreciate your video.

[@emmanleo4347]

I found this video incredibly useful and insightful, thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us. I will definitely incorporate what I have learnt here, when hopefully taking patient histories in the future! 👍🙌👏

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Going to save it in my phone. History taking is almost same all over the world. Thanks for a comprehensive video. Love from 🇮🇳

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So this way history taking is pretty universal and we follow the same and you just made it so crisp and concise!!

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I agree, I am mental health clinician trainee. I follow similar pattern.

[@loveyourmindalittle]

Do you take notes while in the session?

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[@SohiniHalder]

This is so helpful to review as a first year med student! It's interesting that y'all in the UK use "SOCRATES" as your acronym - I've never heard that before! Here in the US we use either "OLDCARTS" or more recently "OPQRST". Super cool video and would love to see more videos like this as you transition into full time clinical! 😇

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Here in my country we use SOCRATES as well 😄

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Nice, I’m a 2nd year nursing student from NZ and this helped me out a lot on placement. Thanks bro!

[@nikolaivanovic6269]

As a fellow medical student I think you have covered every single step to the depth. In my opinion better aproach would have been if you had a friend to play a patient and explain everything during the interview, altho as this isnt strictly video for future doctors it is more than enough to understand the concept of taking history. Great work man , keep it up!

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Extremely useful, thanks a lot!

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Thank you for this - really helped me as an SLT student!

[@hannahpeek414]

I'm an ESL teacher with a personal interest in health and medicine, who has also done some interpretation for American medical professionals doing clinics in interior Amazon villages. I came across this video looking for some great ways to teach my ESL students about taking history to prepare them for things I didn't think to prepare them for before they were called to do interpretation for this trip. So I'm preparing a lesson on genitourinary complaints to add to my curriculum, and in that lesson, I'll combine it with learning how to take a history, so that they get the vocabulary I didn't teach them. I was not expecting to find so many genitourinary complaints, but I was always getting called over by my embarrassed students to interpret. So the next students are going to get it, and who cares if they're embarrassed. They'll get over it and become fine interpretors. Thanks for such a great and concise video.

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This is such a good video , mate!

[@shravyag9602]

I’m not a med student so I can’t relate to this but the next time I’m at the doctors for something major I’ll see if they actually do take my history this way

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Hi!!! I'm a 3rd years medical student in Taiwan. and just learning how to check the English history record, I'm such your huge fan since your first what's in my bag video. Watching your video always makes me feel inspired and useful.

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I needed this guide so much I am going to 3rd year, this process i find very hard.

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I’ve heard about this topic so much on Nasir and Ali’s channel that this is a video we were curious about.

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If there are any visitors asking the patient if they are comfortable with them being in the room during this is verry important. I would say the perfect moment for that is after the introduction (3:40 min mark).

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Doctors are a blessing for mankind. Good doctors are really huge blessings. I just underwent surgery and can't thank my surgeon and anesthesiologist enough not only for saving my life but also for being so kind and caring for me through such a sensitive period of my life. Dr Nasir (you're almost a doctor!), keep up the good work, and don't ever leave your empathy for your patients. That's really important. Guaranteed, you'll meet some asshole patients, but please forgive them and move on. Also, please don't leave this profession for something more attractive (no disrespect to Ali Abdal, he's great!), but my request to you would be to please please please never leave this line of work. All the very best to you. Keep making more videos I'm not a doctor, but your videos are very helpful either way.

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Not me just doing a cbl class on patient interviewing 😯. Thank you Nasir

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Excellent explained Kharma. Thank you : )

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As a medic student it was so helpful,,,,I would ask if you can do videos on nursing theories

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Thank you

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Great video as always 🤣

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Very helpful video

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Thank you , that was very helpful. I have a question , i am finding it very hard to remember the information during a history without writing it all down but that prevents me from being 100% present with the patients + it puts me down during OSCEs because we cant write notes during that. Do you have any advice regarding that? Thank you 🙏🏻

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Those in-depth questions are usually asked in the specialist department, but most of the GP I have been visiting are asking a few questions, e.g. what are your medication in the past weeks? how do you feel now after taking those? what is your medical concern now? I'm glad to learn a lot from the way KIng College Medicine has taught you along when you are practising your medical knowledge by sharing with us. Thanks.

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"Hi, my name is Nasir and I am now a final-year medical student studying at King's College London." Such a distinguished intro!🤩🤩👍👍 Excellent video!🌟💯 Thank you for making this! It's extremely useful for everybody, not just for future doctors! Once, when I was at the ER because of a severe kidney inflammation, I was lying on the gurney, half-dead and writhing in pain, when all of a sudden a completely baffled med student was sent "to my aid". The poor creature was supposed to take my medical history - and she just stared at me, clutching to a piece of paper and a pen, not knowing what to ask, let alone what to do. I had to proceed by reporting my medical history myself and I think I did quite well, since the supervising doctor (when he finally arrived) had no further questions for me. But this video is such an awesome guideline for such situations! 💯🌟👍Thank you for this! I've made notes from your video and I'm going to keep them in my bag for future reference! 👍😀

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Helpful

[@DaRyteJuan]

As a mere patient consuming this kind of content, it’s amazing to me how astute medical personnel can sometimes be. First you have to remember just HOW to collect the information, and then you have to retain it long enough to capture it to the patient’s medical record. However, with the last doctor I had a consultation with, I feel like he should have read my rights first. Many things I disclosed I thought were only going to remain as verbal conversations. No! He transcribed EVERYTHING, even the most superfluous things. I’m never gonna be that open again. Sheesh.

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I hope he does things like this when he's a doctor. I'd rather have another (better) Dr Mike than an Ali abdaal