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Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study

OBJECTIVE: The conduct of a medical interview is a challenging skill, even for the most qualified physicians. Since a training is needed to acquire the necessary skills to conduct an interview with a patient, we compared role-play with standardized patients (SP) training and a conventional lecture f...

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Autores principales: Geoffroy, Pierre A., Delyon, Julie, Strullu, Marion, Dinh, Alexy Tran, Duboc, Henri, Zafrani, Lara, Etienne, Isabelle, Lejoyeux, Michel, Ceccaldi, Pierre-François, Plaisance, Patrick, Peyre, Hugo
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Publicado: Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32200607
http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.0258
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author Geoffroy, Pierre A.
Delyon, Julie
Strullu, Marion
Dinh, Alexy Tran
Duboc, Henri
Zafrani, Lara
Etienne, Isabelle
Lejoyeux, Michel
Ceccaldi, Pierre-François
Plaisance, Patrick
Peyre, Hugo
author_facet Geoffroy, Pierre A.
Delyon, Julie
Strullu, Marion
Dinh, Alexy Tran
Duboc, Henri
Zafrani, Lara
Etienne, Isabelle
Lejoyeux, Michel
Ceccaldi, Pierre-François
Plaisance, Patrick
Peyre, Hugo
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description OBJECTIVE: The conduct of a medical interview is a challenging skill, even for the most qualified physicians. Since a training is needed to acquire the necessary skills to conduct an interview with a patient, we compared role-play with standardized patients (SP) training and a conventional lecture for the acquisition of communications skills in undergraduate medical students. METHODS: An entire promotion of third year undergraduate medical students, who never received any lessons about communications skills, were randomized into 4 arms: 1) SP 2 months before the testing of medical communications skills (SP); 2) conventional lecture 2 months before the testing (CL); 3) two control groups (CG) without any intervention, tested either at the beginning of the study or two months later. Students were blindly assessed by trained physicians with a modified 17-items Calgary-Cambridge scale. RESULTS: 388 students (98.7%) participated. SP performed better than CL, with significant statistical differences regarding 5 skills: the use of open and closed questions, encouraging patient responses, inviting the patient to clarify the missing items, encouraging of the patient’s emotions, and managing the time and the conduct of the interview. The SP group specifically improved communications skills between the SP training and testing sessions regarding 2 skills: the use of open and closed questions and encouraging patient responses. No improvements in communications skills were observed in CG between the two time points, ruling out a possible time effect. CONCLUSION: Role-play with standardized patients appears more efficient than conventional lecture to acquire communication skills in undergraduate medical students.
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spelling pubmed-71765692020-04-27 Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study Geoffroy, Pierre A. Delyon, Julie Strullu, Marion Dinh, Alexy Tran Duboc, Henri Zafrani, Lara Etienne, Isabelle Lejoyeux, Michel Ceccaldi, Pierre-François Plaisance, Patrick Peyre, Hugo Psychiatry Investig Original Article OBJECTIVE: The conduct of a medical interview is a challenging skill, even for the most qualified physicians. Since a training is needed to acquire the necessary skills to conduct an interview with a patient, we compared role-play with standardized patients (SP) training and a conventional lecture for the acquisition of communications skills in undergraduate medical students. METHODS: An entire promotion of third year undergraduate medical students, who never received any lessons about communications skills, were randomized into 4 arms: 1) SP 2 months before the testing of medical communications skills (SP); 2) conventional lecture 2 months before the testing (CL); 3) two control groups (CG) without any intervention, tested either at the beginning of the study or two months later. Students were blindly assessed by trained physicians with a modified 17-items Calgary-Cambridge scale. RESULTS: 388 students (98.7%) participated. SP performed better than CL, with significant statistical differences regarding 5 skills: the use of open and closed questions, encouraging patient responses, inviting the patient to clarify the missing items, encouraging of the patient’s emotions, and managing the time and the conduct of the interview. The SP group specifically improved communications skills between the SP training and testing sessions regarding 2 skills: the use of open and closed questions and encouraging patient responses. No improvements in communications skills were observed in CG between the two time points, ruling out a possible time effect. CONCLUSION: Role-play with standardized patients appears more efficient than conventional lecture to acquire communication skills in undergraduate medical students. Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2020-04 2020-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7176569/ /pubmed/32200607 http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.0258 Text en Copyright © 2020 Korean Neuropsychiatric Association This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Geoffroy, Pierre A.
Delyon, Julie
Strullu, Marion
Dinh, Alexy Tran
Duboc, Henri
Zafrani, Lara
Etienne, Isabelle
Lejoyeux, Michel
Ceccaldi, Pierre-François
Plaisance, Patrick
Peyre, Hugo
Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study
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title_full Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study
title_fullStr Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study
title_full_unstemmed Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study
title_short Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study
title_sort standardized patients or conventional lecture for teaching communication skills to undergraduate medical students: a randomized controlled study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32200607
http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.0258
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