Effectiveness of Digital Education on Communication Skills Among Medical Students: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the Digital Health Education Collaboration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective communication skills are essential in diagnosis and treatment processes and in building the doctor-patient relationship.

Objective

Our aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of digital education in medical students for communication skills development. Broadly, we assessed whether digital education could improve the quality of future doctors' communication skills.

Methods

We performed a systematic review and searched seven electronic databases and two trial registries for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cluster RCTs (cRCTs) published between January 1990 and September 2018. Two reviewers independently screened the citations, extracted data from the included studies, and assessed the risk of bias. We also assessed the quality of evidence usi

SUBMITTER: Kyaw BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6764329 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature