Teaching Patient-Related Communication to Surgical Residents in Brief Training Sessions.
J Surg Educ
; 77(6): 1496-1502, 2020.
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| ID: mdl-32534941
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Effective provider-patient communication has several benefits; however, few surgical residency programs have communication training and surgical residents have limited time for education. We developed a communication curriculum with limited didactics and emphasis on practice. Our objective was to evaluate whether this time-limited intervention led to changes in surgical resident communication skills.DESIGN:
A 4-module curriculum was implemented for surgical residents (PGY2-4). Each 30-minute module focused on specific communication micro-skills empathy, concerns and expectations, chunking information and avoiding jargon, and teach-back. Modules included brief didactics, simulated patient interactions, feedback, and debriefing. Precurriculum, residents completed a 2-station objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and a survey on communication confidence. Residents evaluated each module and postcurriculum, completed another 2-station OSCE, confidence survey, and overall curriculum evaluation. Using validated rating scales, OSCEs were scored by 2 independent raters.SETTING:
Tertiary care, academic center with a 5-year surgical residency program.PARTICIPANTS:
All 17 eligible residents completed both OSCEs and surveys, and 14 attended ≥3 modules.RESULTS:
Following the curriculum, residents reported increased use of the targeted skills and increased confidence in responding to emotions, information sharing, and bad news telling (p < 0.004). There was no change in history taking. Residents rated the usefulness of each module modestly (2.5-3.1, scale 0-4), however, the likelihood of skill implementation was higher (3.2-3.6). The overall postcurriculum OSCE scores increased (versus precurriculum scores, p < 0.001). Postcurriculum scores increased for empathy, concerns and expectations, and teach-back. Chunking information and avoiding jargon was unchanged. Fifteen residents reported module length as appropriate, and 2 thought they were too short.CONCLUSIONS:
The brief modules led to increased self-reported use of communication skills and were effective in improving resident communication in OSCEs. This may be a useful curricular model for both surgical and nonsurgical residency programs with limited availability for curricular time.Palavras-chave
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Internato e Residência
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
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