Abstract
Two studies are reported which examine the use and credibility of patients' reports of medical students' clinical interviewing skills. In the first study patients' high satisfaction via a standard rating form tended to match clinicians' assessment of second-year students' history-taking and physical examination skills. A second study used pre-defined 'ideal' and 'not-ideal' bedside roles by a small group of fourth-year students to examine how perceptive or tolerant hospital inpatients are about clinical interviews, whether this effect is sex-linked, and consequently how useful direct and indirect information obtained from patients is in training medical students' interviewing skills.
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