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ArticleMedical science educator2025

Enhancing User-Interviewing During Design Thinking: Leveraging Clinical Communication Skills to Augment the Student-Innovator's Toolkit.

Kagiso Dikgomo, Raeesah Ackerdien

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Article in Medical science educator, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kagiso DikgomoDepartment of Medical Practice, Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5875-9077
Raeesah AckerdienDepartment of Medical Practice, Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa.ORCID 0009-0005-3134-8864

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pedagogical application of design thinking in higher education has increased in recent years. Many higher education institutions apply design thinking to acquaint students with user-centred approaches for problem-solving. We consider a problem identified in an evaluation of experiences in implementing design thinking in a master's-level course, where it was discovered that student designers had limited experience in qualitative interviewing skills, which compromised the quality of user engagement. We provide a potential solution for design thinking courses to improve user interviewing. Accordingly, we make curriculum framework and faculty development suggestions. Lastly, we suggest a research agenda to coincide with this solution.

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Clinical communication skillsConsultation modelsDesign thinkingTeaching design thinkingUser-interviewing

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PMID41555886
PMCPMC12812131

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