How I ranked 1st in Cambridge University | Medical History Taking Approach

Hi guys, welcome to the channel. Today we’re going to talk about The Calgary Cambridge Approach to taking a medical history. I've broken it down into 8 separate parts to keep things as simple as possible. Hope you find it useful :)

Timestamps:
00:48 - The 3 parts to a good history
01:48 - How to structure your history?
02:23 - Step 1: Initiate the session & build rapport
02:43 - Step 2: Screening
03:06 - Step 3: Information gathering
03:42 - SOCRATES
04:20 - Step 4: Summarise
04:48 - Step 5: Risk factors
05:57 - Step 6: System Review
06:48 - Step 7: Patient perspective & cues
07:25 - Step 8: Background medical history
08:33 - How to present your history?

Useful resources:

Who am I? My name is Arun, I’m a junior doctor working in London and graduated from Cambridge University 2 years ago. I’ve helped 100s of students over the last 10 years or so get into med school with things like personal statements, picking uni choices, the UCAT & BMAT exams and medical school interviews. I was the lead UCAT & BMAT tutor for Kaplan Test Prep for 5 years and helped write their materials. I started up a company called Easy Medical Interviews to help students for their medical school interviews. I’ve decided to put all my experience over the years onto Youtube now so its completely free for you guys and hopefully you find it useful!

[ArunKiru]

Timestamps:
00:48 - The 3 parts to a good history
01:48 - How to structure your history?
02:23 - Step 1: Initiate the session & build rapport
02:43 - Step 2: Screening
03:06 - Step 3: Information gathering
03:42 - SOCRATES
04:20 - Step 4: Summarise
04:48 - Step 5: Risk factors
05:57 - Step 6: System Review
06:48 - Step 7: Patient perspective & cues
07:25 - Step 8: Background medical history
08:33 - How to present your history?

[tibgaming]

I work for the ambulance service and I've always wondered why we differ so much in our history taking - no just between hospital vs pre-hospital but between individual staff members. The vast majority of staff of varying skill levels will have a wide range of different ways of history taking and writing it on a PCR - you can get technicians that can do better paperwork than a paramedic, then you can get some people who don't follow any of this and write a paragraph of random symptoms and examination findings all mixed up with no consistency. While some of this video is irrelevant to pre-hospital medicine, it's given me a lot of insight and will hopefully help me improve my patient report forms.

[hypnosstratagem]

Thank you so much for this. Your content is amazing!

[joe_k]

Hey mate, just wanted to say this is a great video that has helped me out a lot.

Legend

[uh]

I wish that you should have started a plab 2 academy for IMGs.You are such a good teacher

[jany]

Hello Arun, thank you so much for the stellar videos on OSCEs. Could you please do a session on intravenous fluid prescribing (like when to add 20 mmol of KCl) in OSCEs?

[alanmilligan]

This has saved my life in my OSCE - thank you :)

[kkhyna]

I normally don't comment on video but I loved this you basically summarise all my comms session into 10 minutes so thanks!!! You mention you have a website where can I find it because I've now been watching all your other video and want to find out more 😅

[shwabzamen]

Hey Arun, hopefully I’ll be starting medical school in September. Could make any content on how to study for preclinical exams?

[avijitsarker]

Thank you for spreading your knowledge with us.

[ridwanabdullahi]

Hello doctors,
Can anyone point me to the system review description, can't find it.

[jacquesRH]

This is absolutely perfect, thank you.

[elvinchan]

great content doc I'm currently studying for IP as a clinical pharmacist this really does help

[lalaland]

Can u help us with some examples of history like a fully combined history of diabetes or chest pain etc

[aksharavaibhav]

Sir, this video was really helpful. Can you please make more videos like this with different presentations?

[kevinspl]

Ali Abdaal: I ranked 1st in Cambride
Arun Kiru: Hold my beer

[fariyaahmed]

Hi Arun great video. Could you please do some videos on Obs and gynea, Mental health and paediatric history taking approach

[viraltiktokviraltiktok]

amazing thanks...am a sixth year med. student but this heeeelped me alot

[davidsilveira]

Brilliant presentation Arun! Well done! Would you consider some counselling vids too?

[sarahelsherbini]

Can you do a device counseling video I’m a pharmacy student in my third year and I failed my osce hope you could help me