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ArticleAdvances in medical education and practice2024

Dual Coaching of Medical Clerkship Students' History Taking Skills by Volunteer Inpatients at the Bedside and Faculty Physicians on Zoom During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Kush S Patel, Ronald J Anderson, Carolyn B Becker, William C Taylor, Anne F Liu, Anubodh S Varshney, Nadaa B Ali, Barbara J Nath, Stephen R Pelletier, Helen M Shields and 1 more

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Kush S PatelDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Ronald J Anderson *Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Carolyn B Becker *Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
William C Taylor *Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Anne F Liu *Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Anubodh S Varshney *Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Nadaa B Ali *Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Barbara J Nath *Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Stephen R PelletierOffice of Medical Education, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Helen M ShieldsDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0457-9606
Nora Y OsmanDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

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Purpose: Coaching is a well-described means of providing real-time, actionable feedback to learners. We aimed to determine whether dual coaching from faculty physicians and real inpatients led to an improvement in history-taking skills of clerkship medical students. Patients and Methods: Expert faculty physicians (on Zoom) directly observed 13 clerkship medical students as they obtained a history from 26 real, hospitalized inpatients (in person), after which students received immediate feedback from both the physician and the patient. De-identified audio-video recordings of all interviews were scored by independent judges using a previously validated clinical rating tool to assess for improvement in history-taking skills between the two interviews. Finally, all participants completed a survey with Likert scale questions and free-text prompts. Results: Students' history-taking skills - specifically in the domains of communication, medical knowledge and professional conduct - on the validated rating tool, as evaluated by the independent judges, did not significantly improve between their first and second patient interviews. However, students rated the dual coaching as overwhelmingly positive (average score of 1.43, with 1 being Excellent and 5 being Poor), with many appreciating the specificity and timeliness of the feedback. Patients also rated the experience very highly (average score of 1.23, with 1 being Excellent and 5 being Poor), noting that they gained new insights into medical training. Conclusion: Students value receiving immediate and specific feedback and real patients enjoy participating in the feedback process. Dual physician-patient coaching is a unique way to incorporate more direct observation into undergraduate medical education curricula.

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direct observationimmediate feedbackmedical student educationreal patientsvirtual teaching

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PMCPMC11460274

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