Assessment of Medical Students’ Shared Decision-Making in Standardized Patient Encounters

• Published in: Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 367 - 372
• Main Authors: Hauer, Karen E., Fernandez, Alicia, Teherani, Arianne, Boscardin, Christy K., Saba, George W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.04.2011; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Clinical Competence - standards; College students; Communication; Decision Making; Educational Measurement - methods; Educational Measurement - standards; Female; General aspects; Health education; Health participants; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Research; Physician patient relationships; Physician-Patient Relations; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Retrospective Studies; Students, Medical - psychology; medical students; shared decision-making; standardized patient encounters; Human; Medicine; Decision making; Resident (student); Patient; Teaching

BACKGROUND Shared decision-making, in which physicians and patients openly explore beliefs, exchange information, and reach explicit closure, may represent optimal physician–patient communication. There are currently no universally accepted methods to assess medical students’ competence in shared de...