Psychiatry Investig.
2020 Apr;17(4):299-305. 10.30773/pi.2019.0258.
Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for TeachingCommunication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students:A Randomized Controlled Study
- Geoffroy P
1,2,3 - Delyon J1,4,5
- Strullu M1,6
- Dinh AT1,7
- Duboc H1,8,9
- Zafrani L1,10,11
- Etienne I1
- Lejoyeux M1,2
- Ceccaldi P1,12
- Plaisance 1,13
- Peyre H1,14
- Affiliations
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- 1iLumens Diderot Simulation Health Center, Paris University, Paris, France
- 2Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, AP-HP, Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France
- 3NeuroDiderot, Inserm, Paris University, Paris, France
- 4Université de Paris; INSERM U976, Team 1, HIPI, Paris, France
- 5Department of Dermatology, AP-HP Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
- 6Service d’hémato-Immunologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Robert Debré, AP-HP, Paris, France
- 7Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, University Hospital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France
- 8INSERM U1149, Centre de Recherche sur l’Inflammation, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
- 9Department of Gastroenterology, Louis Mourier Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France
- 10INSERM U976, HIPI, Paris, France
- 11Department of Intensive Care Medicine, AP-HP Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
- 12HUPNVS, Paris University, Beaujon Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clichy, France
- 13Department of Emergency Medicine, Lariboisière University Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France
- 14Service de Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France
- KMID: 2500235
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.0258
Abstract
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. Psychiatry Investig 2020;17(4):299-305
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