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Listening for Family History (for Healthcare Professionals)

AttributionSarah Jey Whitehead

Students will use family-related vocabulary to practice asking/hearing information about family history. Students will employ listening strategies to understand information about family history when patients aren’t answering specific questions. Students will create follow-up questions to ask patients about their family history.

Materials

See documents.

Steps

  1. Teacher models for students what questions about family history might look like.
  2. Students practice asking each other family history, using information provided to them about made-up patients.
  3. Listening activities focused on family history, using a SPinTX video.
  4. Listening work, and coming up with follow-up questions for a “patient” in a SPinTX video.  
  5.  Students individually consider follow-up questions for a third video, and complete a brief self-evaluation.

More detailed instructions are included in the lesson plan document.