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Use of a Standardized Patient in Teaching Medical Students to Assess for PTSD in Military Veteran Patients

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this resource is to introduce first- and second-year medical students to the psychiatric concerns of military veterans. The number of veterans receiving care outside of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) results in many nonVHA medical doctors treating military vete...

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Autores principales: Fabrizio, Jennifer, DeNardi, Kathleen, Boland, Michael, Suffoletto, Jo-Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association of American Medical Colleges 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6338190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30800810
http://dx.doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10608
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author Fabrizio, Jennifer
DeNardi, Kathleen
Boland, Michael
Suffoletto, Jo-Anne
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description INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this resource is to introduce first- and second-year medical students to the psychiatric concerns of military veterans. The number of veterans receiving care outside of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) results in many nonVHA medical doctors treating military veterans; thus, it is important that medical students have exposure to military veterans and their unique issues during medical training. A noncombat veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was specifically chosen for this training to highlight the fact that PTSD can result from a number of different traumatic events that one may experience during military service. METHODS: The student learners were presented with an hour-long didactic on PTSD, depression, and suicide in military veterans. They subsequently engaged in an hour-long simulation with a standardized patient who was trained in the symptom presentation of PTSD. Each student in the class had an opportunity to complete a medical interview with the standardized patient (SP) and receive feedback from both their peers and the SP. The student learners then evaluated the learning experience. RESULTS: Feedback for the course was overwhelmingly positive. The average response to the quality of the presentation question was 4.83 out of 5 (with 1 = poor; 5 = outstanding). DISCUSSION: The results indicate that using SPs is a valuable learning modality for teaching medical students about psychiatric concerns in the veteran population.
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spelling pubmed-63381902019-02-22 Use of a Standardized Patient in Teaching Medical Students to Assess for PTSD in Military Veteran Patients Fabrizio, Jennifer DeNardi, Kathleen Boland, Michael Suffoletto, Jo-Anne MedEdPORTAL Original Publication INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this resource is to introduce first- and second-year medical students to the psychiatric concerns of military veterans. The number of veterans receiving care outside of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) results in many nonVHA medical doctors treating military veterans; thus, it is important that medical students have exposure to military veterans and their unique issues during medical training. A noncombat veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was specifically chosen for this training to highlight the fact that PTSD can result from a number of different traumatic events that one may experience during military service. METHODS: The student learners were presented with an hour-long didactic on PTSD, depression, and suicide in military veterans. They subsequently engaged in an hour-long simulation with a standardized patient who was trained in the symptom presentation of PTSD. Each student in the class had an opportunity to complete a medical interview with the standardized patient (SP) and receive feedback from both their peers and the SP. The student learners then evaluated the learning experience. RESULTS: Feedback for the course was overwhelmingly positive. The average response to the quality of the presentation question was 4.83 out of 5 (with 1 = poor; 5 = outstanding). DISCUSSION: The results indicate that using SPs is a valuable learning modality for teaching medical students about psychiatric concerns in the veteran population. Association of American Medical Colleges 2017-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6338190/ /pubmed/30800810 http://dx.doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10608 Text en Copyright © 2017 Fabrizio et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode This is an open-access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode) license.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30800810
http://dx.doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10608
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