Funda İfakat Tengiz1, Hale Sezer2, Aysel Başer3, Hatice Şahin4. 1. School of Medicine, Medical Education Department, Izmir Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı; Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey. 2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department, Izmir Bakırçay Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Hemşirelik Bölümü; Izmir Bakırçay University, Izmir, Turkey. 3. School of Medicine, Medical Education Department, Izmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı; Izmir Demokrasi University, Izmir, Turkey. 4. Medical Education Department, Ege Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Patient-physician interviewing skills are crucial in health service delivery. It is necessary for effective care and treatment that the physician initiates the interview with the patient, takes anamnesis, collects the required information, and ends the consultation. Different methods are used to improve patient-physician interview skills before encountering actual patients. In the absence of simulated patients, peer simulation is an alternative method for carrying out the training. This study aims to show whether patient-physician interview skills training can be implemented using peer simulation in the absence of the simulated patient. METHODS: This is a descriptive quantitative study. This research was conducted in six stages: identification of the research problem and determination of the research question, development of data collection tools, planning, acting, evaluation, and monitoring. The data were collected via the patient-physician interview videos of the students. The research team performed descriptive analysis on quantitative data and thematic analysis on qualitative data. RESULTS: Fifty students participated in the study. When performing peer-assisted simulation applications in the absence of simulated patients, the success rate in patient-physician interviews and peer-simulated patient roles was over 88%. Although the students were less satisfied with playing the peer-simulated patient role, the satisfaction towards the application was between 77.33% and 98%. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: In patient-physician interviews, the peer-simulated patient method is an effective learning approach. There may be difficulties finding suitable simulated patients, training them, budgeting to cover the costs, planning, organizing the interviews, and solving potential issues during interviews. Our study offers an affordable solution for students to earn patient-physician interview skills in faculties facing difficulties with providing simulated patients for training.
INTRODUCTION: Patient-physician interviewing skills are crucial in health service delivery. It is necessary for effective care and treatment that the physician initiates the interview with the patient, takes anamnesis, collects the required information, and ends the consultation. Different methods are used to improve patient-physician interview skills before encountering actual patients. In the absence of simulated patients, peer simulation is an alternative method for carrying out the training. This study aims to show whether patient-physician interview skills training can be implemented using peer simulation in the absence of the simulated patient. METHODS: This is a descriptive quantitative study. This research was conducted in six stages: identification of the research problem and determination of the research question, development of data collection tools, planning, acting, evaluation, and monitoring. The data were collected via the patient-physician interview videos of the students. The research team performed descriptive analysis on quantitative data and thematic analysis on qualitative data. RESULTS: Fifty students participated in the study. When performing peer-assisted simulation applications in the absence of simulated patients, the success rate in patient-physician interviews and peer-simulated patient roles was over 88%. Although the students were less satisfied with playing the peer-simulated patient role, the satisfaction towards the application was between 77.33% and 98%. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: In patient-physician interviews, the peer-simulated patient method is an effective learning approach. There may be difficulties finding suitable simulated patients, training them, budgeting to cover the costs, planning, organizing the interviews, and solving potential issues during interviews. Our study offers an affordable solution for students to earn patient-physician interview skills in faculties facing difficulties with providing simulated patients for training.
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