title: Improving interviewing techniques through the bug-in-the-ear.
abstract: The author describes a simple, efficient and inexpensive tool to improve and accelerate the teaching of interviewing techniques. There are major advantages and some shortcomings to this method. Both are reviewed along with a survey carried out to gauge the experiences of psychiatric residency training programs across the continent with the "bug-in-the-ear". The author discusses the implications for residents, supervisors and patients and offers suggestions how to make this approach more available to non-using centers.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*