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dc.contributor.authorHausberg, Maria C.
dc.contributor.authorherert, Anika
dc.contributor.authorKroger, Corinna
dc.contributor.authorBullinger, Monika
dc.contributor.authorRose, Matthias S. F.
dc.contributor.authorAndreas, Sylke
dc.date2022-08-11T08:10:34.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T17:12:51Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T17:12:51Z
dc.date.issued2012-03-24
dc.date.submitted2012-11-20
dc.identifier.citationBMC Med Educ. 2012 Mar 24;12:16. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-12-16" target="_blank">Link to article on publisher's site</a>
dc.identifier.issn1472-6920 (Linking)
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1472-6920-12-16
dc.identifier.pmid22443807
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/46593
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: There is a relative lack of current research on the effects of specific communication training offered at the beginning of the medical degree program. The newly developed communication training "Basics and Practice in Communication Skills" was pilot tested in 2008 and expanded in the following year at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. The goal was to promote and improve the communicative skills of participants and show the usefulness of an early offered intervention on patient-physician communication within the medical curriculum. METHODS: The students participating in the project and a comparison group of students from the standard degree program were surveyed at the beginning and end of the courses. The survey consisted of a self-assessment of their skills as well as a standardised expert rating and an evaluation of the modules by means of a questionnaire. RESULTS: Students who attended the communication skills course exhibited a considerable increase of communication skills in this newly developed training. It was also observed that students in the intervention group had a greater degree of self-assessed competence following training than the medical students in the comparison group. This finding is also reflected in the results from a standardised objective measure. CONCLUSIONS: The empirical results of the study showed that the training enabled students to acquire specialised competence in communication through the course of a newly developed training program. These findings will be used to establish new communication training at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf.
dc.language.isoen_US
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dc.rights© 2012 Hausberg et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subject*Communication
dc.subject*Curriculum
dc.subjectData Collection
dc.subjectEducation, Medical, Undergraduate
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectGermany
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMale
dc.subject*Professional Competence
dc.subject*Program Development
dc.subject*Students, Medical
dc.subjectYoung Adult
dc.subjectMedical Education
dc.titleEnhancing medical students' communication skills: development and evaluation of an undergraduate training program
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.source.journaltitleBMC medical education
dc.source.volume12
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2058&amp;context=qhs_pp&amp;unstamped=1
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/1058
dc.identifier.contextkey3482221
refterms.dateFOA2022-08-23T17:12:51Z
html.description.abstract<p>BACKGROUND: There is a relative lack of current research on the effects of specific communication training offered at the beginning of the medical degree program. The newly developed communication training "Basics and Practice in Communication Skills" was pilot tested in 2008 and expanded in the following year at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. The goal was to promote and improve the communicative skills of participants and show the usefulness of an early offered intervention on patient-physician communication within the medical curriculum.</p> <p>METHODS: The students participating in the project and a comparison group of students from the standard degree program were surveyed at the beginning and end of the courses. The survey consisted of a self-assessment of their skills as well as a standardised expert rating and an evaluation of the modules by means of a questionnaire.</p> <p>RESULTS: Students who attended the communication skills course exhibited a considerable increase of communication skills in this newly developed training. It was also observed that students in the intervention group had a greater degree of self-assessed competence following training than the medical students in the comparison group. This finding is also reflected in the results from a standardised objective measure.</p> <p>CONCLUSIONS: The empirical results of the study showed that the training enabled students to acquire specialised competence in communication through the course of a newly developed training program. These findings will be used to establish new communication training at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathqhs_pp/1058
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences
dc.source.pages16


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