Dunno if you've any plans for the future: medical student indirect questioning in simulated oncology interviews

Dunno if you've any plans for the future: medical student indirect questioning in simulated oncology interviews

BACKGROUND This exploratory study investigated the motives of medical students (N = 63) for using indirect questions of the type I don't know if [you have already heard about chemotherapies], I don't know how [you are], or I don't know what [you do for a living] in simulated patient interviews during a communication skills course. METHODS I don't know questions (IDK-Qs) were observed during t...

Questioning Children: Interactional Evidence of Implicit Bias in Medical Interviews

chologists has shown that implicit race bias can influence an individual’s behavior (Amodio and Devine 2006; Dovidio, Kawakami, and Gaertner 2002; Fazio and Olson 2003). Implicit bias has been suggested to be more prevalent but also less subject to cognitive control than explicit racism (Amodio, Harmon-Jones, and Devine 2003; Dovidio et al. 1997). However, relatively little is known about how i...

Some like it hot: medical student views on choosing the emotional “temperature” of simulated interviews

Attitudes of medical student towards psychiatry as their future job

Introduction. The number of Medical gratuates choosing careers in psychiatry is in decline. In order to determine whether this disinclination toward psychiatry occurs before versus during medical school, this study, surveyed medical students at the start of their freshman year and last year of Medical educations. Methods. 100 freshman medical students and 100 of interns from three medical sch...

Medical oncology future plan of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology: challenges and future needs of the Spanish oncologists

PURPOSE The SEOM Future Plan is aimed at identifying the main challenges, trends and needs of the medical oncology speciality over the next years, including potential oncologist workforce shortages, and proposing recommendations to overcome them. METHODS The estimations of the required medical oncologists workforce are based on an updated Medical Oncologist Register in Spain, Medical Oncology...