Assessment of medical students' shared decision-making in standardized patient encounters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shared decision-making, in which physicians and patients openly explore beliefs, exchange information, and reach explicit closure, may represent optimal physician-patient communication. There are currently no universally accepted methods to assess medical students' competence in shared decision-making.

Objective

To characterize medical students' shared decision-making with standardized patients (SPs) and determine if students' use of shared decision-making correlates with SP ratings of their communication.

Design

Retrospective study of medical students' performance with four SPs.

Participants

Sixty fourth-year medical students.

Measurements

Objective blinded coding of shared decision-making quantified as decision moments (exploration/articulat

SUBMITTER: Hauer KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3055961 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature