TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing knowledge and clinical skills through an adolescent medicine workshop
AU - Feddock, Christopher A.
AU - Hoellein, Andrew R.
AU - Griffith, Charles H.
AU - Wilson, John F.
AU - Lineberry, Michelle J.
AU - Haist, Steven A.
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - Objective: To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington. Participants: A total of 186 third-year medical students. Intervention: Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n=95) participated in a 4-hour adolescent medicine workshop using standardized patients to practice interviewing and counseling skills. Medical students assigned to the control group (n = 91) participated in an alternative workshop. Outcome Measures: Medical student adolescent interviewing and counseling skills were assessed using adolescent standardized patient encounters during the end-of-clerkship examination and during the end of the third-year Clinical Performance Examination. Medical student knowledge was assessed at the end of the clerk-ship using an open-ended postencounter written exercise and the questions specific to adolescent medicine on the clerkship written examination. Results: Both groups had comparable baseline characteristics. Medical students in the intervention group scored significantly higher on both measures of clinical skills, the standardized patient stations during the end-of-clerkship examination and the Clinical Performance Examination. Intervention medical students also scored significantly higher on both measures of knowledge, the open-ended postencounter written exercise and the written examination. Conclusions: A brief adolescent medicine workshop using standardized patients improved medical students' knowledge and skills at the end of a 4-week clerkship, and the improvement in clinical skills persisted at the end of the third year of medical school.
AB - Objective: To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington. Participants: A total of 186 third-year medical students. Intervention: Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n=95) participated in a 4-hour adolescent medicine workshop using standardized patients to practice interviewing and counseling skills. Medical students assigned to the control group (n = 91) participated in an alternative workshop. Outcome Measures: Medical student adolescent interviewing and counseling skills were assessed using adolescent standardized patient encounters during the end-of-clerkship examination and during the end of the third-year Clinical Performance Examination. Medical student knowledge was assessed at the end of the clerk-ship using an open-ended postencounter written exercise and the questions specific to adolescent medicine on the clerkship written examination. Results: Both groups had comparable baseline characteristics. Medical students in the intervention group scored significantly higher on both measures of clinical skills, the standardized patient stations during the end-of-clerkship examination and the Clinical Performance Examination. Intervention medical students also scored significantly higher on both measures of knowledge, the open-ended postencounter written exercise and the written examination. Conclusions: A brief adolescent medicine workshop using standardized patients improved medical students' knowledge and skills at the end of a 4-week clerkship, and the improvement in clinical skills persisted at the end of the third year of medical school.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.559
DO - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.559
M3 - Article
C2 - 19255394
AN - SCOPUS:61449127370
SN - 1072-4710
VL - 163
SP - 256
EP - 260
JO - Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
JF - Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
IS - 3
ER -