'Standardized patients' in teaching the communication skill of history-taking to four-year foreign medical undergraduates in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many foreign students have difficulty taking histories from Chinese patients, especially in clinical context of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The efficacy of using standardized patients to prepare foreign students for communicating with Chinese patients and taking their histories was evaluated in this study.

Methods

Ninety-four four-year foreign students were assigned to one of three clinical sub-departments (gynaecology, obstetrics, and reproductive endocrinology) to practice history-taking; after practicing in one sub-department, the students were then crossed over to a different department. The histories were taken from real patients in the sub-departments of obstetrics and reproductive endocrinology and from standardized patients in the sub-dep

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6466762 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature