Training of Intern Doctors with Interpersonal Communication [IPC]: a Step towards better doctor patient relationship

International Journal of Biomedical and Advance Research

Gokul Jaywant Jorwekar ; Dilip K Apturkar ; Padmakar K Baviskar ; Meena H Shaikh

关键词: s Communication skills, doctor-patient relationship, interpersonal communication, training in interpersonal communication;   

学科分类：药学、药理学、毒理学（综合）

来源: Scholar Science Journals

【 摘 要 】

Background: Interpersonal communication skill is important for good doctor patient relationship; taught informally in medical education and mostly left to students with responsibility of getting learnt themselves. To address this problem, we decided to innovate a new curriculum module on interpersonal communication [IPC] to train medical students. Aim and Objectives: To do needs assessment of intern doctors about knowledge, skills and skills of interpersonal communication [IPC] and evaluate impact of interpersonal communication training module in improving knowledge, skills and attitude of intern doctors about IPC Materials and methods: Present study was quasi-experimental study was carried out in the department of surgery, Rural Medical College, Loni from February 2014 to January 2015. Thirty intern doctors participated. Intervention module for training was developed. Assessment of participants was done with pre and post intervention OSCE. Observations: By applying Students Paired t test, there is a highly significant increase in scores in post intervention OSCE [as compared to pre intervention] at all stations in 30 students under study (p<0.01) Conclusion: Formal training in Interpersonal communication [IPC] is an important step towards developing habit of using good doctor patient relationship in future clinicians. Key words: Communication skills, doctor-patient relationship, interpersonal communication, training in interpersonal communication

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