Development, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum for medical students on conflicts of interest and communicating risk.

ABSTRACT: Background: Insufficient risk competence of physicians, conflicts of interests from interactions with pharmaceutical companies, and the often distorted presentation of benefits and risks of therapies compromise the advising of patients by physicians in the framework of shared decision-making. An important cause of this is that teaching on this subject is mostly lacking, or fragmented when it does take place [1], [2], [3], [4]. Even though the German National Competence-Based Catalog of Learning Goals in Medicine defines learning goals on the topics of conflicts of interest and communication of risk, there are no classes that integrate both topics. Our goal was to develop a model curriculum to teach conflicts of interest and communication of risk that would integrate statistical know-how, c

SUBMITTER: Deis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7105765 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature