Randomised controlled monocentric trial to compare the impact of using professional actors or peers for communication training in a competency-based inverted biochemistry classroom in preclinical medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In medical education, biochemistry topics are usually knowledge based, and students often are unaware of their clinical relevance. To improve students' awareness of the relevance, we integrated communication skills training into biochemistry education. No studies before have examined the difference between peer and standardised patient (SP) role plays where students explain the biochemical background of a disease in patient-centred language. Therefore, we evaluated whether students' self-perceived competency in Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) roles and their opinion of the quality of role play differ if the layperson is played by peers or SPs.

Methods

We randomly assigned medical students in a preclinical semester to one of the two g

SUBMITTER: Schneider A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9137345 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature