title: A course component to teach interviewing skills in informing and motivating patients.
abstract: In the present study, the authors implemented and evaluated a course component to teach three types of interviewing skills: giving information to patients, handling emotions on the part of patients, and motivating patients. The authors developed a seven-week course for second-year students that included identification and demonstration of explicit interviewing skills, practice with simulated patients, and feedback in a small-group setting. Thirty of the 104 students in the course were randomly selected for evaluation before and after the course. They showed statistically significant increases in their interviewing skills, based on ratings of videotaped interviews with simulated patients after the course, but did not change significantly in self-assessment of their level of confidence in aspects of conducting the interviews.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Hoppe
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Farquhar
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Stoffelmayr
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Helfer
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008824:Michigan; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D014743:Videotape Recording