Emergency Ultrasound: Point-of-care Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine.
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medical students deserve training in active listening and counseling before they encounter patients in distress. At the Alpert medical school of Brown university we created and evaluated a workshop that trains first-year medical students to assess patients’ emotional states and express empathy in an efficient and effective manner. using second-year students as near-peer facilitators, we integrated the workshop into the existing preclinical first-year curriculum. We found that students’ self-reported comfort in counseling a patient experiencing an emotionally challenging situation increased from 27% to 79% after the 90-minute workshop. KEYWORDs: empathy, medical students, active listening empathy is a critical skill to develop as a physician-in-training. empathetic care leads to better adherence to treatment and fewer major medical errors,1 greater health benefits for patients with diabetes2 and common cold3 and fewer malpractice lawsuits.3 despite the importance of empathy, counseling training and active-listening skill-building are not a required part of medical education. other organizations, such as volunteer-based suicide prevention hotlines, require up to 60 hours of counseling training prior to allowing volunteers to answer calls. Why is it that medical schools do not require active-listening training? there are several reasons why this might be the case. there is very limited time in the preclinical curriculum, meaning that time dedicated to building medical knowledge would be sacrificed. Additionally, it has never been a traditional [Author: Lianna Karp is a fourth year medical student at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (AMS). She was instrumental in introducing active-listening skills as a crucial part of the first year medical school curriculum. In this article, she shares her thoughts about the workshop based program she developed under the guidance of Sarita Warrier, MD, and the results of the follow up survey of those who participated. Lianna has served on the AMS Student Health Council (SHC) for the past three years. The SHC is modeled after the Rhode Island Medical Society’s Physician Health Program and supported by the RIMS Foundation. The RIMS’ Physician Health Program’s director and Committee Chairperson serve in an advisory and consultative capacity to the SHC.] 7
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Rhode Island medical journal
دوره 98 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015