医学教育
研究生医学教育
住院医师培训
家庭医学
专业
师徒制
培训(气象学)
课程
沟通技能培训
作者
Jennifer M. Snaman,Erica C. Kaye,Melody J. Cunningham,April Sykes,Deena R. Levine,Daniel Mahoney,Justin N. Baker
摘要
Background
Medical trainees consistently report suboptimal instruction and poor self-confidence in communication skills. Despite this deficit, few established training programs provide comprehensive, pediatric-specific communication education, particularly in the provision of “bad news.” To our knowledge, no programs currently use bereaved parent educators to facilitate communication training for pediatric subspecialty trainees.
Procedure
The authors designed and implemented a pilot communication training seminar in which bereaved parent educators and faculty facilitators led small groups in interactive, role-play scenarios. Surveys incorporating a retrospective preprogram assessment item to account for response-shift bias were used to assess short- and long-term changes in trainee comfort with delivering “bad news.”
Results
Fifteen pediatric fellowship trainees participated in the communication seminar; complete data were available for 12 participants. After accounting for response-shift bias, participants reported significant improvement in overall preparedness, breaking bad news to a patient and family, and including the adolescent or young adult patient in conversations. Additionally, participants reported a significant improvement in their ability to address a patient and family's need for information, emotional suffering at the end of life (EOL), if and when a patient should be included in the conversation, and EOL care decisions. The participant's self-perceived improvement in comfort and preparedness persisted over time.
Conclusions
Communication training for pediatric subspecialty trainees using bereaved parent educators is feasible and effective. Both medical trainee and bereaved parent participants benefited from involvement in this pilot study. Further iterations of this training will be modified to assess objective measures of improvement in trainees’ communication skills.
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