Medical Students' Acquisition of Adolescent Interview Skills after Coached Role Play - 20/03/18
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Abstract |
Study Objective |
To develop and evaluate an educational activity designed to teach the adolescent Home, Education and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Sexuality, Suicide/depression, and Safety (HEADS) examination.
Design, Setting, Participants, Interventions, and Main Outcome Measures |
Participants were third-year medical students in their pediatric clerkships. Students received an article on the HEADS interview and attended an adolescent medicine educational session. The session included individualized goal-setting and coached role play. Students’ skills in doing a HEADS interview were evaluated through a standardized patient encounter (SPE) with a checklist and a retrospective pre- and post-test survey. The SPE checklist was used to assess whether the students included questions in 6 key areas of a HEADS interview.
Results |
One hundred fifty-two students participated. During the SPE, 90% of students queried the adolescent's home life, 91% education, 82% activities, 84% drug/substance abuse, 95% sexual history, and 61% symptoms of depression. Pre- and postintervention data were compared using the Kruskal-Wallis Test and showed a statistically significant difference in the students' ability to list key topic areas of the HEADS exam (P < .001) and to use the skills needed for an adolescent interview using the HEADS exam (P < .001).
Conclusion |
After an introduction to the HEADS examination, most students covered almost all of the topic areas of this screening interview during a SPE. Only three-fifths of the students, however, included questions about symptoms of depression. Coached role play with goal-setting facilitated effective learning of this approach to adolescent interviewing.
El texto completo de este artículo está disponible en PDF.Key Words : Adolescent medicine education, Medical education, Coached role play, HEADS interview
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The authors indicate no conflicts of interest. |
Vol 31 - N° 2
P. 102-106 - avril 2018 Regresar al númeroBienvenido a EM-consulte, la referencia de los profesionales de la salud.
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