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A diagnostic-prescriptive teaching module on basic interviewing skills for first-year medical students is presented. The goal of the module is to help students refine interpersonal communications skills relative to the medical interview. The module provides information on the following skills: eliciting patient responses, interviewing techniques and terminology, observing and interpreting patient's methods of expression, and awareness and management of feelings evoked during an interview. Specific objectives include the following: (1) identify examples of interviewing techniques that are facilitative; (2) identify examples of open-ended questions, clarifying statements, recapitulation, focused questions, and empathic statements; (3) consider both the specific content of the interview and modes of expression when listening to patients; (4) identify kinds of linguistic communication and paralinguistic communication; (5) list four types of behavioral communication and five typical feelings expressed by patients; and (6) support the rights of patients to their own feelings, philosophies, moral codes, and life styles. Test items are included. (SW)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert