title: An interviewing course for a psychiatry clerkship.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Taking a psychiatric history is a key educational objective in the psychiatry clerkship. Medical students arrive on psychiatry clerkships unprepared for the unique challenges of psychiatric interviewing. This paper describes an interviewing course for psychiatry clerks that combines practice, observation, and feedback in a small group setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  A quasi-experimental cohort design with medical student self-ratings as the dependent variable.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Students' self-perceived skill in interviewing and differential diagnosis improved more than students who did not have the interviewing course. Students' self-perceived skills also correlated significantly with the number of times they observed interviews.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clerkship directors in psychiatry should provide students with opportunities to practice interviewing skills, observe interviews, and receive feedback.
authors.affiliation: Office of Medical Education and Faculty Development, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611-3008, USA. a-nuzzarello@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nuzzarello
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Birndorf
mesh_terms: D015331:Cohort Studies; D003479:Curriculum; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*