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Abstract
PURPOSE: The purpose of the study is to develop education programs for improving medical school students' medical communication ability, and to provide basic information to help develop and operate medical communication education programs by analyzing the education programs and students satisfaction from the education effects.Entities:
Keywords: Communication; Health communication; Medical education; Medical schools
Year: 2014 PMID: 25805261 PMCID: PMC8813367 DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2014.26.3.189
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Med Educ ISSN: 2005-727X
Organization of Contents of Medical Communication Program
| Week | Subject | Contents | Time | Teaching methods |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medical communication overview | Overview | 1 | Lecture, communication level evaluation, role play |
| Communication basic knowledge | ||||
| Communication skills | Communication methods | 2 | Lecture, role play, demonstration, self-reflective report | |
| Building relationship | ||||
| Empathy, listening, attitude | ||||
| 2 | Understanding one’s perspectives | Understanding oneself and the others | 2 | Lecture, feedback, MBTI workshop, self-reflective report |
| Communication with patients and guardians | ||||
| Communication with fellow medical personnel | ||||
| 3 | Clinical communication | Structure and function of clinical communication | 2 | Lecture, role play, demonstration, case analysis, self-reflective report |
| Clinical communication procedures | ||||
| 4 | Medical interview in various situations | Medical interview with difficult patients | 2 | Lecture, role play, demonstration, case analysis, self-reflective report, communication level evaluation, student satisfaction survey |
| Medical interview dealing with other various situations |
MBTI: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Research of Demand for Medical Communication Education Content
| Contents | No. | |
|---|---|---|
| Communication | Ways of building reliable relation (trust, rapport, etc.) | 19 |
| Ways of communication (tone, expression, question, etc.) | 19 | |
| Ways of information gathering and communicating | 13 | |
| Empathy, listening | 12 | |
| Communication with patients | Understanding patients (position, desire, mind) | 8 |
| Ways of dealing appropriately with situations (delivering bad news, dealing with difficult patients, etc.) | 7 | |
| Expressing in patients language | 6 | |
| An attitude toward patients (manners, the dos and don’ts, etc.) | 6 | |
| Communication with fellow medical personnel and guardians | Fellow medical personnel | 2 |
| Patient guardians | 1 | |
Communication Level Differences between before and after the Education
| Factor | Pre | Post | t(p) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Building relationship | 5.28 | 1.02 | 5.47 | 0.93 | -2.77 |
| Opening relationship | 5.17 | 0.77 | 5.34 | 0.89 | -1.92 |
| Gathering information | 4.92 | 0.88 | 5.31 | 0.79 | -4.74 |
| Understanding one’s perspectives | 4.74 | 0.84 | 4.99 | 0.89 | -3.16 |
| Sharing information | 4.93 | 0.83 | 5.23 | 0.82 | -3.65 |
| Reach agreement | 5.33 | 0.75 | 5.37 | 0.8 | -0.52 |
| Providing closure | 5.40 | 0.83 | 5.56 | 0.82 | -1.82 |
SD: Standard deviation.
p<0.05,
p<0.01.
Student Satisfaction Evaluation
| Items | Mean | SD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall satisfaction | Overall satisfaction | 3.07 | 0.60 | |
| Satisfaction with education | Contents | 3.99 | 0.67 | |
| Method | 3.11 | 0.60 | ||
| Level of difficulty | 3.10 | 0.61 | ||
| With feedbacks to the assignments | 3.03 | 0.71 | ||
| Satisfaction the class management | 2.95 | 0.69 | ||
| Self-evaluation | Degree of voluntary participation | 2.90 | 0.61 | |
SD: Standard deviation.