Association between Physician Trainee Self-Assessments in Discussing Religion and Spirituality and Their Patients' Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective physician communication at the end-of-life is a cornerstone to providing patient-centered palliative care. Educational programs in physician communication often rely on self-assessments of physician knowledge and attitudes and seldom provide patients' reports. Thus, it is unclear whether physician self-assessments are associated with patient perspectives.

Objective

To determine whether physician trainees' self-assessments of their communication skills in religious/spiritual discussions were associated with assessments obtained from patients under their care.

Design

Prospective, observational, survey-based study of internal medicine trainees' self-assessments matched with their patients' reports. Data were obtained from preintervention surveys prio

SUBMITTER: Ford DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3991969 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature