About
Our interest in medical interviewing skills led us to construct and analyze a method for instructing and measuring them. Participation in instruction groups early in our studies convinced us of the importance of the medical interview for both patient and physician. Moreover, it triggered the desire to enhance the quality of our own interviewing skills and to gain insight into the intricacies of the consultation process.
Due to the enthusiasm of inexperience, MAAS MI was developed
The construction of the Maastricht History-taking and Advice Checklist, as the MAAS Medical Interview was originally called, and the subsequent studies in reliability and validity came about due to the enthusiasm of inexperience: neither of us realized beforehand the dangers, pitfalls and demands in terms of time, energy and knowledge that would need to be met.
Alfons A.M. Crijnen and Herro F. Kraan are both psychiatrists, but were, at the time of construction, a general practitioner and psychiatrist involved in the education of medical students and residents in the Netherlands.
Acknowledgements
We were fortunate to meet many enthusiastic and gifted people whose contributions enriched our work. MAAS Medical Interview is very grateful to our associates for reviewing and providing valuable feedback:
- Dr. Abhishek Avtans, University of Leiden, on intercultural communication
- Sabine Braasch, Heidelberg University, on obsessions and compulsions
- Emma Çernis, University of Oxford, on felt sense of anomaly
- Frédérick Deschêne, Heidelberg University, on space
- Prof. dr. dr. Thomas Fuchs, Karl-Jaspers-Professor for the Philosophical Foundations in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University, on the structure of the Examination of Self, the Psychiatric Interview and the Socio-emotional Exploration
- Prof. dr. Sanneke de Haan, Erasmus University, on sense of self
- Mads Gram Henriksen, University of Copenhagen, on delusional mood and alterations of self
- Martin Mercado, Heidelberg University, on depression and anxiety
- Prof. dr. Julie Nordgaard, University of Copenhagen, on the structure of the Examination of Self, the Psychiatric Interview and the Socio-emotional Exploration
- Alexandra Pritzkau, Heidelberg University, on agency
- Prof. dr. Henk Schmidt, Chancellor at Erasmus University, on clinical reasoning and History-taking
- Iván Edmundo Vial Pérez, Heidelberg University, on intercorporeality and intersubjective experiences
- Tamara Vijfhuizen, Erasmus University, on financial and housing situation.
