Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundUnderlying the global burden of chronic disease are common and modifiable risk factors such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and tobacco use. Health coaching is being introduced into healthcare as an effective tool in facilitating behaviour change and addressing lifestyle risk factors in patients. Although some medical schools are t...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundAs good communication skills are crucial for doctor-patient interactions, it is recommended to incorporate them in medical school programs from the very beginning. On this basis medical schools in Germany introduced the OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) to examine and by this foster learning of communication skills as asses...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundNational Health Service (NHS) staff support service users to change health-related behaviours such as smoking, alcohol consumption, diet and physical activity. It can be challenging to discuss behaviour changes with service users hence training is needed to equip staff with up-to-date, evidence-based behaviour change skills. In order to i...
Published in Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics
Cancer patients suffer from many physical, psychological, and social problems that may impede quality of life and reduce the impact of treatment. Researchers have concluded that in addition to focusing on the treatment of the disease in the form of drugs and chemotherapy, factors such as the physical environment, communication skills of physicians ...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundEffective communication is at the heart of good medical practice but rates of error, patient complaints, and poor clinician job satisfaction are suggestive of room for improvement in this component of medical practice and education.MethodsWe conducted semi-structured interviews with experienced clinicians (n = 19) and medical students (n ...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundPhysician empathy has been associated with improved clinical outcomes and lower physician burnout. We evaluated whether forum theater (FT), a form of applied drama that allows participants to enter the performance and represent the actions associated with emotions, would foster empathy in medical students, and which underlying variables w...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundPre-recorded videotapes have become the standard approach when teaching clinical communication skills (CCS). Furthermore, video-based feedback (VF) has proven to be beneficial in formative assessments. However, VF in CCS with the use of pre-recorded videos from real-life settings is less commonly studied than the use of simulated patients...
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BackgroundIn recent years, Spanish medical schools (MSs) have incorporated training in communication skills (CS), but how this training is being carried out has not yet been evaluated.ObjectiveTo identify the barriers to the introduction and development of CS teaching in Spanish MSs.MethodsIn a previous study, 34 MSs (83% of all MSs in Spain) were ...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundMedical students need feedback to improve their patient-interviewing skills because self-monitoring is often inaccurate. Effective feedback should reveal any discrepancies between desired and observed performance (cognitive feedback) and indicate metacognitive cues which are diagnostic of performance (metacognitive feedback). We adapted a...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundPeer-assisted learning is well established in medical education; however, peer tutors rarely act as assessors for the OSCE. In the compulsory, near-peer teaching programme covering basic medical skills at the University of Heidelberg, peer tutors serve as assessors on a formative OSCE. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility and a...
