Book chapter
Evaluating communication skills training courses
Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care
Oxford University Press, Second
03/25/2010
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198736134.003.0062
Abstract
Across the continuum of medical education, the focus is shifting from the teacher and
the curriculum to the learner and the evaluation of educational outcomes. In the field
of communication skills training, educators are now carefully examining the outcomes
of their programmes. This chapter looks at assessment strategies used for
communication skills training, describes how to design an effective evaluation
methodology, and considers how outcomes have been measured in the oncology
communication skills training literature. Evaluation of communications training
programmes should follow standards and guidelines familiar in other types of research,
meet standards of reliability and feasibility, and yield information that will be
useful to the trainees and to programmes as a whole. A good test of usefulness is to
ask whether learners will know how well they perform and what they need to do to
improve as a result of assessment findings, and whether trainers will know how to
improve training and curriculum as a result of the findings.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evaluating communication skills training courses
- Creators
- Kathy Cole-kellyLyuba KonopasekJohn EncandelaMarcy Rosenbaum
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care
- Edition
- Second
- DOI
- 10.1093/med/9780198736134.003.0062
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/25/2010
- Academic Unit
- Family and Community Medicine; Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education
- Record Identifier
- 9984297346502771
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