eprintid: 24332
rev_number: 11
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2018-04-30 07:40:05
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type: article
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creators_name: Alvarez, Simone
creators_name: Schultz, Jobst-Hendrik
title: Medical educators’ perception of communication training with simulated patients: an explorative study approach
subjects: ddc-610
divisions: i-51001
abstract: Objective: Medical students’ perceptions of the use of simulated patients (SP) in communication training in medicine have been studied intensively, but insights about faculty perception of this type of simulation training remain rare. This study aimed to assess medical educators’ perception of the relevancy of SP communication training, as well as its closeness to reality. Medical educators were surveyed by standardized questionnaire and open-ended questions. The questionnaire allowed educators to rate several aspects of the training such as its closeness to reality and relevancy to real-life physician–patient interaction.

Results: Educators’ perception of relevance and realism of SP training increases with teaching experience. This appears to be influenced by factors such as internal or external status of the educator, personal experience with communication training during medical studies, as well as medical field taught. Communication training with SP is valued highly by medical educators mainly because of its versatility and broad spectrum of applicability. The wide range of application of SP in medical education seems most evident to senior educators because of their increased amount of experience with physician–patient interaction, whereas junior educators appear often hindered by the aspect of simulation caused by the thought that the patients are “merely” actors.
date: 2017
publisher: BioMed Central
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 165605986X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-243321
language: eng
bibsort: ALVAREZSIMMEDICALEDU2017
full_text_status: public
publication: BMC Research Notes
volume: 10
number: 650
place_of_pub: London
pagerange: 1-5
issn: 1756-0500
citation:   Alvarez, Simone ; Schultz, Jobst-Hendrik  (2017) Medical educators’ perception of communication training with simulated patients: an explorative study approach.  BMC Research Notes, 10 (650).  pp. 1-5.  ISSN 1756-0500     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/24332/1/13104_2017_Article_2988.pdf