(1941) A NEW STRATEGY FOR MEDICAL STUDENT TRAINING OF PATIENT PHYSICIAN COMMUNICATION SKILL

摘要

Objectives: The Department of Medical Education at National Taiwan University Hospital developed acurriculum "Interactive Training Program of Patient Physician Communication Skill" for medicalstudents in 2013. Instead of the traditional didactic method, this curriculum applied different teachingstrategies including audio-visual technique, role-play, feedback and small group discussion in thetraining. This study was designed to exam the benefit of this new curriculum model.Methods: 119 fourth grade National Taiwan University medical students received training in 2013.During the four-hour training program, medical students viewed five video clips then small groupdiscussion, role-play, video replay, and feedback. After training, medical students filled out aquestionnaire rating the importance of and their confidence with patient physician communication skill.Results: The training program was effective as the pre- and post-test results demonstrated increasedconfidence in communication skill. The new strategy made participants more engaging. Participants'patient physician communication knowledge (F = 35.29, p <.001, η2 = .045) and skill (F = 17.13, p<.001, η2 = .023) were significantly higher than those before the workshop. As for the self-assessmentof global scoring on physician competence of communication, the scores after the workshop aresignificantly higher than those before the workshop (F = 13.56, p <.001, η2 = .027). Long-term impactof the training program on the patient care outcome will be assessed by patient follow-up survey sixmonths later.Conclusions: Interactive training program of patient physician communication can be effective insettings where teaching strategy is traditionally didactic.