"Learning With the Patient": How Obstetrics and Gynecology Trainees Develop Patient Counseling and Informed Consent Skills.

ABSTRACT: Background Effective patient communication is a critical skill developed during medical education, but it lacks standardized teaching methods. There is little data on how trainees learn these skills, impeding the development of evidence-based educational initiatives. Social learning theory, particularly communities of practice, is a valuable lens to study how residents develop these competencies as they progress toward unsupervised practice. Objective The authors sought to understand obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residents' views of their learning about patient counseling and informed consent through the framework of social learning theory. Methods Using constructivist grounded theory, the authors conducted semistructured interviews with residents from all years o

SUBMITTER: Panko A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12710367 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature