Journal article
Teaching delivery of bad news using experiential sessions with standardized patients
Teaching and learning in medicine, Vol.14(3), pp.144-149
2002
DOI: 10.1207/S15328015TLM1403_2
PMID: 12189633
Abstract
Delivering bad news is a difficult task that is important to address in medical education.
This study evaluated the impact of an experiential educational intervention using multiple standardized patient scenarios on medical students' comfort with delivering difficult news.
In small groups, 3rd-year medical students practiced communicating bad news within the context of five different patient scenarios. During 1999 and 2000, surveys were administered to 341 students before and 4 weeks and 1 year after the program. Students rated comfort level in discussing bad news, terminal illness, hospice, and dying with patients.
A significant one standard deviation change was observed in students' self-reported comfort in communicating bad news after the educational program. The intervention was highly rated, especially the encounters with standardized patients and observation of others.
Experiential education using multiple standardized patient scenarios is a successful model for increasing student comfort in responding to difficult clinical communication tasks.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Teaching delivery of bad news using experiential sessions with standardized patients
- Creators
- Marcy E Rosenbaum - Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. Marcy-rosenbaum@uiowa.eduClarence Kreiter
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Teaching and learning in medicine, Vol.14(3), pp.144-149
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1207/S15328015TLM1403_2
- PMID
- 12189633
- ISSN
- 1040-1334
- eISSN
- 1532-8015
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2002
- Academic Unit
- Family and Community Medicine; Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education
- Record Identifier
- 9984024412602771
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