title: Teaching and assessing family medicine clerks' use of medical interpreters.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Academic health centers must develop strategies to prepare health care providers to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population.
  
  
  METHODS
  We designed a curriculum module, including didactic presentation and a standardized patient experience, to teach and evaluate the knowledge and skills necessary for third-year family medicine clerks to effectively communicate with non-English-speaking patients when using interpreters in clinical settings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analyses indicated improvement both in students' knowledge and skills following participation in the curriculum module.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The instructional intervention was successful in improving students' effective use of interpreters in a simulated clinical setting.
authors.affiliation: College of Medicine, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43614, USA. constance.shriner@utoledo.edu
authors.forename: Constance J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Shriner
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Hickey
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000379:methods*; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003479:Curriculum; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D016544:Patient Simulation; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011361:Professional Competence