Open AccessImproving Students’ Sexual History Inquiry and HIV Counseling with an Interactive Workshop Using Standardized Patients
Author(s) -
Haist Steven A.,
Griffith, III Charles H.,
Hoellein Andrew R.,
Talente Gregg,
Montgomery Thomas,
Wilson John F.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.746
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 1525-1497
pISSN - 0884-8734
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.30204.x
Subject(s) - sexual history , medicine , curriculum , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , intervention (counseling) , family medicine , medical history , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychology , pedagogy
Sexual history and HIV counseling are essential clinical skills. Our project's purpose was to evaluate a standardized patient (SP) educational intervention teaching third‐year medical students sexual history taking and HIV counseling. A 4‐hour SP workshop was delivered to one‐half of the class. Four weeks later, all students engaged in an SP examination including one station on assessing sexual history taking and HIV counseling. Workshop participants scored one standard deviation higher on sexual history and HIV counseling items than nonparticipants. Our sexual history and HIV counseling curriculum was associated with students asking more thorough sexual histories and providing more HIV counseling.