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‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students
This study presents a modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience (GOSCE) focused on difficult conversations, in which, due to limited time and financial resources, only some students could actively participate in scenarios. We aimed to evaluate the intervention, including differences be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34072179 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115772 |
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author | Przymuszała, Piotr Marciniak-Stępak, Patrycja Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena Borowczyk, Martyna Cieślak, Katarzyna Szlanga, Lidia Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja Marciniak, Ryszard |
author_facet | Przymuszała, Piotr Marciniak-Stępak, Patrycja Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena Borowczyk, Martyna Cieślak, Katarzyna Szlanga, Lidia Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja Marciniak, Ryszard |
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description | This study presents a modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience (GOSCE) focused on difficult conversations, in which, due to limited time and financial resources, only some students could actively participate in scenarios. We aimed to evaluate the intervention, including differences between them and observers. The intervention was organized for sixth-year medical students at a Polish medical university. The study protocol assumed a pre-post analysis of students’ attitudes and self-efficacy of communication skills and their opinions about the intervention. Complete questionnaire pairs were returned by 126 students. The pre-post analysis revealed a significant improvement in their self-efficacy levels of almost all skills as well as their affective attitudes and belief in outcomes of communication learning. The improvement was significant among both the active participants and observers. It also showed a decrease in the motivation score, significant only in females. Regardless of their roles, students had positive opinions about the course and its particular aspects. The modified GOSCE may be an enjoyable and effective learning experience for students, especially in the light of limited resources. However, changes in their motivation score suggest the necessity to increase the importance of communication learning in the curriculum. |
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spelling | pubmed-81979992021-06-14 ‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students Przymuszała, Piotr Marciniak-Stępak, Patrycja Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena Borowczyk, Martyna Cieślak, Katarzyna Szlanga, Lidia Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja Marciniak, Ryszard Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study presents a modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience (GOSCE) focused on difficult conversations, in which, due to limited time and financial resources, only some students could actively participate in scenarios. We aimed to evaluate the intervention, including differences between them and observers. The intervention was organized for sixth-year medical students at a Polish medical university. The study protocol assumed a pre-post analysis of students’ attitudes and self-efficacy of communication skills and their opinions about the intervention. Complete questionnaire pairs were returned by 126 students. The pre-post analysis revealed a significant improvement in their self-efficacy levels of almost all skills as well as their affective attitudes and belief in outcomes of communication learning. The improvement was significant among both the active participants and observers. It also showed a decrease in the motivation score, significant only in females. Regardless of their roles, students had positive opinions about the course and its particular aspects. The modified GOSCE may be an enjoyable and effective learning experience for students, especially in the light of limited resources. However, changes in their motivation score suggest the necessity to increase the importance of communication learning in the curriculum. MDPI 2021-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8197999/ /pubmed/34072179 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115772 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Przymuszała, Piotr Marciniak-Stępak, Patrycja Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena Borowczyk, Martyna Cieślak, Katarzyna Szlanga, Lidia Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja Marciniak, Ryszard ‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students |
title | ‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students |
title_full | ‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students |
title_fullStr | ‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students |
title_short | ‘Difficult Conversations with Patients’—A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students |
title_sort | ‘difficult conversations with patients’—a modified group objective structured clinical experience for medical students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34072179 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115772 |
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