Relationship of resident characteristics, attitudes, prior training and clinical knowledge to communication skills performance.
PURPOSE: A substantial body of literature demonstrates that communication skills in medicine can be taught and retained through teaching and practice. Considerable evidence also reveals that characteristics such as gender, age, language and attitudes affect communication skills performance. Our stud...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 18 - 26 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106457211&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106457211 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 03080110 ESF jtl: Medical Education issn: 03080110 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan2006 vid: 40 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 106457211 106457211 2009185422 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02345.x NLM16441319 106457211 ppf: 18 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Relationship of resident characteristics, attitudes, prior training and clinical knowledge to communication skills performance. aug: au: Laidlaw TS Kaufman DM MacLeod H van Zanten S Simpson D Wrixon W affil: Division of Medical Education, Dalhousie University, Clinical Research Centre, Rm C-115, 5849 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4H9; Toni.Laidlaw@dal.ca sug: subj: Clinical Competence Standards Communication Skills Internship and Residency Student-Patient Relations Age Factors Attitude of Health Personnel Communication Skills Training Data Analysis Software Data Analysis, Statistical Descriptive Statistics Female Funding Source Interviews Male Nova Scotia P-Value Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Questionnaires Sex Factors Summated Rating Scaling T-Tests Videorecording Human Female Male ab: PURPOSE: A substantial body of literature demonstrates that communication skills in medicine can be taught and retained through teaching and practice. Considerable evidence also reveals that characteristics such as gender, age, language and attitudes affect communication skills performance. Our study examined the characteristics, attitudes and prior communication skills training of residents to determine the relationship of each to patient-doctor communication. The relationship between communication skills proficiency and clinical knowledge application (biomedical and ethical) was also examined through the use of doctor-developed clinical content checklists, as very little research has been conducted in this area. METHODS: A total of 78 first- and second-year residents across all departments at Dalhousie Medical School participated in a videotaped 4-station objective structured clinical examination presenting a range of communication and clinical knowledge challenges. A variety of instruments were used to gather information and assess performance. Two expert raters evaluated the videotapes. RESULTS: Significant relationships were observed between resident characteristics, prior communication skills training, clinical knowledge and communication skills performance. Females, younger residents and residents with English as first language scored significantly higher, as did residents with prior communication skills training. A significant positive relationship was found between the clinical content checklist and communication performance. Gender was the only characteristic related significantly to attitudes. CONCLUSIONS: Gender, age, language and prior communication skills training are related to communication skills performance and have implications for resident education. The positive relationship between communication skills proficiency and clinical knowledge application is important and should be explored further. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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