title: Evaluating patients' satisfaction with medical students' interviewing skills.
abstract: Two studies are reported which examine the use and credibility of patients' reports of medical students' clinical interviewing skills. In the first study patients' high satisfaction via a standard rating form tended to match clinicians' assessment of second-year students' history-taking and physical examination skills. A second study used pre-defined 'ideal' and 'not-ideal' bedside roles by a small group of fourth-year students to examine how perceptive or tolerant hospital inpatients are about clinical interviews, whether this effect is sex-linked, and consequently how useful direct and indirect information obtained from patients is in training medical students' interviewing skills.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations