Module 10: The Sad Patient
Registrar pre teaching session worksheet
>click here for printable version<Supervisors have identified this as a difficult to teach topic. Do you have any thoughts on why this might be the case? What differences would you expect between teaching about sadness and teaching about depression, for example?
Think about what you understand by the concept of sadness, and how it could affect people’s health in a general practice setting.
- Go through your appointment book for the last week
- Identify and record all the patients you remember as having sadness as a component of their presentation or story
- Select two of these cases to discuss in your teaching session with your Supervisor