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16306284

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-11-24
pubmed:abstractText
Medical schools are charged with the challenge of teaching effective communication skills, a core competency for residents and medical students. Especially challenging is the task of developing effective methods for training residents and students to communicate with children with mental health issues. The authors describe a pilot program at Mercer University School of Medicine that used pediatric standardized patients (SPs), ages 9-19, to aid in training residents and medical students in complex interviewing skills addressing mental health issues. New curriculum components for four pediatric problems, anorexia nervosa, depression, separation anxiety, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), were designed and implemented by the authors in 2002-04. The training sessions were evaluated by the participating SPs as well as the residents and medical students in training. The components of the training were a lecture and subsequent practice using pediatric SPs and adults acting as their mothers. Evaluation included the qualitative analysis of SPs' reactions to participation in the training as described during a posttraining-session focus-group, as well as questionnaire responses by residents and medical students. The children role-playing the scenario of a difficult-to-manage situation and their adult "parent" actors voiced strongly positive reactions to participating in training residents and medical students. The reactions of physicians in training were also positive. The authors thus conclude that child and adolescent actors can be effectively used as SPs to train residents and students in complex interviewing skills, even in cases involving children with challenging mental health issues.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1040-2446
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1114-20
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Using children as simulated patients in communication training for residents and medical students: a pilot program.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Mercer School of Medicine, 655 First Street, Macon, GA 31201, USA. brown_rm@mercer.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Evaluation Studies