"Patient's Family Wants an Update": A Curriculum for Senior Medical Students to Deliver Telephone Updates for Hospitalized Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Residents have the important task of updating family members of hospitalized patients, often by telephone. There are limited curricula dedicated to preparing medical students for this task, which will become their responsibility as residents.

Methods

We created a virtual workshop, including four patient cases, to facilitate teaching senior medical students enrolled in an internal medicine residency preparation course. Students alternated role-playing either physician or family member. We assessed performance using a self-assessment rubric before (preworkshop) and after (postworkshop) a didactic session. We compared pre- and postworkshop scores using t tests. We also used a retrospective pre-post survey with a 5-point Likert scale to assess each participan

SUBMITTER: Edwards CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9120304 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature