ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020
Single-Day Simulation-Based Training Improves Communication and Psychiatric Skills of Medical Students.
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- Simulation-based education in undergraduate psychiatry: a focused review and interpretive analysis of clinical competence representation.BMC medical education · 2026Review
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Multimodal Psychotherapy Training Program for Medical Students in China: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Standardized Patient Simulation as a Teaching Method in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Improving the quality of care and patient safety in oncology, the contribution of simulation-based training: A scoping review.International journal of nursing sciences · 2024Article
- Simulation as a key training method for inculcating public health leadership skills: a mixed methods study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Communication skills in psychiatry for undergraduate students: A scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Evaluating the effectiveness of a single-day simulation-based program in psychiatry for medical students: a controlled study.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Controlled Study of the Impact of a Virtual Program to Reduce Stigma Among University Students Toward People With Mental Disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Delivering Difficult News: Simulation-Enhanced Training Improves Psychiatry Residents' Clinical Communication Skills.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Effective and innovative teaching methods in psychiatry for the medical undergraduates in South India: An exploratory study of teachers' and students' perspectives.Indian journal of psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
backgroundUse of standardized (or simulated) patients (SP) is considered an effective teaching method for improving clinical and communication skills. This study assesses the effect of a single-day simulated patients (SP)-based training course on medical students' communication and basic skills in clinical psychiatry during their psychiatry rotation in a university-affiliated tertiary medical center.
methodsForty-two third-year medical students participated. Communication and basic skills in clinical psychiatry were evaluated by a modified Four Habits Coding Scale (4HCS) and the psychiatric interview coding scale before and after SP training. An actual patient interview by the students 1 week after the training was evaluated by an attending psychiatrist blinded to the student's score during the SP-based training. Self-report questionnaires on satisfaction from the training and its impact on their self-confidence were administered at the end of training.
findingsThe mean pre-training 4HCS score of 33.9 increased to 52.3 post-training (
conclusionsA single SP-based training course of medical students sufficed to improve clinical and communication skills in psychiatric settings and enhance their subjective perception of those skills.
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