Trial reportBMC medical education2019
Specific feedback makes medical students better communicators.
Trial report in BMC medical education, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions for improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Virtual suturing skills learning: role of verbal versus written feedback in surgery rotation clerkship.Medical education online · 2022Trial
- The effect of peer modelling and discussing modelled feedback principles on medical students' feedback skills: a quasi-experimental study.BMC medical education · 2021Trial
- How to assess communication skills? Development of the rating scale ComOn Check.Medical education online · 2017Trial
- Student Preferences for Feedback Delivery in Healthcare Education: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Cureus · 2025Article
- Reflective Dialogues: Comparing Team-Based and Individual Reflection Approaches in Fostering Communication Skills in Medical Students.Medical science educator · 2025Article
- Attitudes of medical students towards communication skills and patient-centered care: the impact of group mentorship.International journal of medical education · 2025Article
- Communication skills in pediatrics: perception of medical students.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Do the teaching, practice and assessment of clinical communication skills align?BMC medical education · 2024Observational
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- Beyond words: analyzing non-verbal communication techniques in a medical communication skills course via synchronous online platform.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Three perspectives on learning in a simulated patient scenario: a qualitative interview study with student, simulated patient, and teacher.Advances in simulation (London, England) · 2023Article
- Validity and reliability of a Korean version of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Multisource feedback in medical students' workplace learning in primary health care.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Student characteristics associated with interpersonal skills in medical consultations.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- What Faculty Want: Academic and Community Emergency Physicians' Perceptions of Learner Feedback.Cureus · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the impact of an intervention on the communication skills of first-year pediatric residentsRevista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2021Article
- Quality of written feedback given to medical students after introduction of real-time audio monitoring of clinical encounters.BMC medical education · 2020Article
- Improving Student Feedback Quality: A Simple Model Using Peer Review and Feedback Rubrics.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
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Abstract
backgroundFeedback is regarded a key element in teaching communication skills. However, specific aspects of feedback have not been systematically investigated in this context. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of communication skills training (CST) integrating specific, structured and behavioral feedback.
methodsWe condensed best practice recommendations for feedback in a CST for undergraduate medical students and compared the effect of specific, structured and behavior-orientated feedback (intervention group CST-behav) to general, experience-orientated feedback (CST- exp. as our control group) in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We investigated changes on communication skills evaluated by independent raters, and evaluated by standardized patients (SP). To do that, every student was video-recorded in a pre and post assessment.
resultsSixty-six undergraduate medical students participated voluntarily in our study. Randomization did not result in equally skilled groups at baseline, so valid inter-group comparisons were not possible. Therefore, we analyzed the results of 34 students of our intervention group (CST-behav). Five out of seven domains in communication skills as evaluated by independent raters improved significantly, and there was a significant change in the global evaluation by SP.
conclusionsAlthough we were unable to make between-group comparisons, the results of the within group pre-post evaluation suggest that specific feedback helps improve communication skills.
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