Standardized Patients or Conventional Lecture for Teaching Communication Skills to Undergraduate Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Study
Lead Author: Pierre A. Geoffroy
Submitted by: Kerensa Peterson, NBOME Chicago
A group of researchers at Paris Diderot University conducted a randomized controlled study. They compared the effectiveness of teaching communication skills via standardized patients versus a conventional lecture format. The Standardized Patients helped the medical student perform 5 particular communication skills better than the lecture counterpart.
Read the full article in the Psychiatry Investigation here.
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