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Using patient‐instructors to teach and evaluate interviewing skills
Author(s) -
Stilwell NA,
Reisine S
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1992.56.2.tb02612.x
Subject(s) - interview , medical education , consistency (knowledge bases) , social skills , motivational interviewing , interpersonal communication , constructive , psychology , perspective (graphical) , process (computing) , medicine , intervention (counseling) , nursing , computer science , social psychology , political science , law , psychotherapist , operating system , artificial intelligence
The teaching and evaluation of clinical interviewing skills is a continuing challenge for medicine and dentistry. The use of patient‐instructors who provide consistency in presenting scenarios has recently been pioneered in dental education. This program focused primarily on teaching and used patient‐instructors to give individual feedback from the patient's perspective to students after each of five scenarios. Feedback was constructive and behaviorally oriented so that it could be applied immediately to succeeding scenarios. Rating instruments assessed both process and content skills. Results indicated that students improved significantly in interpersonal interviewing skills as they progressed through the exercise. Content skills improved only slightly. Student and faculty reaction was positive. The program is an effective and time efficient means of teaching history taking and interviewing skills as well as an effective evaluation tool.