Skills for Interviewing Adolescent Patients: Sustainability of Structured Feedback in Undergraduate Education on Performance in Residency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective adolescent (10 to 19 years) interviewing by physicians is an essential skill that many trainees can find challenging.

Objective

We assessed whether structured adolescent interviewing using standardized patients (SPs) and feedback in undergraduate medical education (UME) has a sustained effect on residents' skills.

Methods

Postgraduate year (PGY) 1 residents conducted interviews with a SP adolescent-mother pair. The SPs independently scored each PGY-1 interview using the structured communication adolescent guide (SCAG). Unpaired t tests were conducted comparing "Total-Item" and "Global" scores of PGY-1s who received structured SP adolescent interviewing with feedback in UME ("structured training" group) to those who had not ("no structured training

SUBMITTER: Joukhadar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936863 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature