A systematic and comprehensive approach to teaching and evaluating interpersonal skills.
This study addressed one problem with current methods for teaching and evaluating interpersonal skills: the failure to include a wide range of behaviors reported in the literature as contributing to patient dissatisfaction and noncompliance. To address this concern, the authors developed a comprehensive interpersonal skills training program and a pretest-posttest evaluation. The tests were administered to two student groups one of which received the interpersonal skills instruction. The student group exposed to the training exhibited a significant positive change from pretest to posttest. Additionally the change for this group was significantly greater than the change for the group not exposed to interpersonal skills instruction.
D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D008396:Maryland; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000193:education; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations