Analysis of the assessment of clinical students' doctor-patient communication skills and recom-mendations for improvement
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-1485.2015.08.017
- VernacularTitle:临床专业学生医患沟通技能考核分析与改进建议
- Author:
Xiao LI
;
Chang CUI
;
Jianhua LU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Doctor-patient communication;
Clinical medical program;
Graduation assess-ment;
Objective structured clinical examination;
Correlation analysis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2015;(8):824-825
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the mastery of clinical students' doctor-patient communi-cation skills and to assess the teaching effectiveness about the doctor-patient communication, and then propose some improvement ideas. Methods We conducted a study in students of clinical medicine of Nanjing Medical University in Grade 2009, using Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) after internship, which included graduation assessment of doctor-patient communication skills. Then we analyzed the doctor-patient communication skills and related scores of students trained in different clinical medical programs. Results The average score of doctor-patient communication skills of 549 students was (82.72±4.23), of which, the average score of 329 five-year students of clinical medicine was (81.88±4.23) and the average score of seven-year students was (83.96±3.91) in. The average score of seven-year students of clinical medicine was significantly higher than five-year students (P=0.000). Moreover, there was a significant positive correlation between the total score of OSCE and the score of doctor-patient communication skills in both five-year and seven-year students of clinical medicine (five year program students' score correlation coefficient was 0.520, P=0.000;seven year pro-gram students' score correlation coefficient 0.416, P=0.000). Conclusion The teaching effectiveness of doctor-patient communication has proved to be quite effective, and it is definitely of great significance in improving clinical students' doctor-patient communication skills. The score of the assessment of the doctor-patient communication reflects not only the training effectiveness of the communication skills, but also the comprehensive capacity.
