Effects of a teaching mode combining SimBaby with standardized patients on medical students’ attitudes toward communication skills

BMC Medical Education

Research

Chuan Wen¹  Fei-Feng Wu¹  Ji-Dong Tian¹ 

[1] Department of Pediatrics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 410011, Changsha, China;

关键词: Simulation-based medical education;    Standardized patient;    Communication skills;    Clinical teaching;    SimBaby;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-022-03869-8

 received in 2022-04-30, accepted in 2022-11-07,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of a teaching mode combining SimBaby with standardized patients (SP) on medical students’ attitudes toward communication skills (CS).MethodsForty 8-year medical program students majoring in clinical medicine were randomly divided into the SimBaby group (n = 20) and the SP + SimBaby group (n = 20). The Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) was used to evaluate medical students’ attitudes toward CS learning.ResultsIn the SimBaby and SP + SimBaby groups, there were no statistically significant differences in the Positive Attitude Subscale (PAS) and Negative Attitude Subscale (NAS) scores between males and females (p > 0.05). Compared to the SimBaby group, the SP + SimBaby group showed statistically significant differences in PAS, NAS, and the two dimensions of importance in medical context and learning (p < 0.05). There were no statistically significant differences between groups in the dimensions of excusing and overconfidence (p > 0.05).ConclusionCompared with SimBaby alone, the SP + SimBaby teaching mode can improve medical students’ attitude toward CS learning, suggesting that the organic integration of multiple simulation-based medical teaching methods plays an important role in the acquisition of CS.

【 授权许可】

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