Teaching Medical Students How to Break Bad News: A Turkish Experience

Dikici, Mustafa Fevzi; Yarış, Füsun; Çubukçu, Mahcube

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“…The notion of advanced communication skills training in oncology has grown out of this research, as has the development of specific guidelines that assist in identifying effective strategies in complex communication settings such as delivering bad news [8][9][10][11][12], collaborative decision making regarding standard treatments and clinical trials [13], and the discussion of prognosis and realistic hope in the context of advanced disease [14,15]. Short immersion courses in cancer communication training, following a residential model, have shown success in improving communication skills [16][17][18][19].…”

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Developing and Implementing an Advanced Communication Training Program in Oncology at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Cancer patients report significant levels of unmet needs in the realm of communication. Communication skills training programs have been shown to improve clinical communication. However, advanced communication skills training programs in oncology have lacked institutional integration, and thus have not attended to institutional norms and cultures that may counteract explicit communication skills training. We developed and implemented an advanced communication skills training program made up of nine teaching modules for faculty, fellows, and residents. Training included didactic and experiential small group work. Self-efficacy and behavior change were assessed for individual participants. Since 2006, 515 clinicians have participated in this training program. Participants have shown significant gains in self-efficacy regarding communicating with patients in various contexts. Our initial work in this area demonstrates the implementation of such a program at a major cancer center to be feasible, to be acceptable, and to have a significant impact on participants' self-efficacy.

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“…These studies engaged the learners themselves, the SP or a third party (i.e. a patient, a lecturer or a faculty member, either external or internal to the research team) to rate communication proficiency . Learners were taught the communication skills by an SP and in some studies had a comparator group consisting of lectures, role play, a variation on role play such as theatre skills, or both.…”

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“…There were 25 (42%) studies that incorporated a knowledge‐change element into the outcome measures . Bosse et al .…”

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Understanding the impact of simulated patients on health care learners’ communication skills: a systematic review

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“…Other medical and health care schools have included educational interventions to maintain and enhance empathy in undergraduate students or health care professionals (Bayne, 2011;Bunn & Terpstra, 2009;Dikici, Yaris & Cubukcu, 2009;Dow, Leong, Anderson & Wenzel, 2007;Fine & Therrien, 1977;Ghetti, Chang & Gosman, 2009;Kushner, Zeiss, 1 Unpaired t-tests with 85 degrees of freedom in all comparisons with the control group; paired t-tests with 41 degrees of freedom otherwise.…”

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“Empathize with me, Doctor!” Medical Undergraduates Training Project: Development, Application, Six-months Follow-up

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The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of specially designed, empathy training for medical undergraduates, based on the principles of Person-Centered Approach.Within the context of the humanistic person-centered patient care, the experiential, 60-hour "Empathize with me, Doctor!" training program contains theory, personal development and skills development. Role plays, experiential exercises, self-awareness exercises, active listening practice and conduction of a person-centered interview constituted the training.Forty-two medical undergraduates (66% females; 29% fourth year of study, 40% fifth, 31% sixth) from the University of Ioannina in Greece applied and all of them completed the empathy training. Forty-five medical students comprised a similar according to age and year of studies control group.The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) was used to assess the empathic performance, and Cohen's d to assess the practical importance of any statistical difference.The JSPE mean score (and standard deviation) before, after and six months follow-up was 109.3(12.7), 121.1(9.0), 121.1(9.5), respectively. The before-after and before-follow-up difference was highly significant (CI95%, p<0.001 in both cases), and of great practical importance (d=1.072, d=1.052, respectively), while no decrease was observed six-months later (CI 95%, p=0.999, d<0.001). Control group reached a JSPE 108.7(10.5), similar to intervention group before training (CI95%, p=0.832), and highly different and important compared to after (CI 95%p<0.001; d=1.268) and follow-up (CI 95%, p<0.001; d=1.238) intervention scores.The "Empathize with me, Doctor!" improved significantly and importantly medical undergraduates' empathic performance, which was maintained intact for at least six months.

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Teaching Medical Students How to Break Bad News: A Turkish Experience

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Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Developing and Implementing an Advanced Communication Training Program in Oncology at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

Developing and Implementing an Advanced Communication Training Program in Oncology at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

Understanding the impact of simulated patients on health care learners’ communication skills: a systematic review

“Empathize with me, Doctor!” Medical Undergraduates Training Project: Development, Application, Six-months Follow-up

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