Open AccessCustomizable Curriculum to Enhance Resident Communication Skills
Author(s) -
John D. Mitchell,
Cindy Ku,
Brendan P. Lutz,
Sajid Shahul,
Vanessa Wong,
Stephanie B. Jones
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000004084
Subject(s) - generalizability theory , interquartile range , medicine , curriculum , medical education , test (biology) , family medicine , statistics , surgery , psychology , biology , paleontology , pedagogy , mathematics
Communication remains challenging to teach and evaluate. We designed an online patient survey to assess anesthesia residents' communication skills from August 2014 to July 2015. In December 2014, we implemented a customized, simulation-based curriculum. We calculated an overall rating for each survey by averaging the ratings for the individual questions. Based on the Hodges-Lehmann 2-sample aligned rank-sum test, overall ratings, reported as the median (interquartile range) of residents' average overall ratings, differed significantly between the preintervention (3.86 [3.76-3.94]) and postintervention (3.91 [3.84-3.95]) periods (P = .025). Future studies should assess the intervention's effectiveness and generalizability.