title: [Effect of doctor-patient communication education on oral clinical practice].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effect of doctor-patient communication education on dental clinical practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  The process of 61 dental interns' clinical practice was divided into two stages. The dental interns were taught with traditional teaching method in the first stage. Doctor-patient communication and communication skill training were added to the second stage. Scale of medical student's doctor-patient communication behavior was used to evaluate the dental interns' behavior by themselves after two stages. The SEGUE frame work was used to evaluate the dental interns' behavior by teachers after two stages. All statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 13.0 software package. The result of scale of medical student's doctor-patient communication behavior was analyzed using Fisher exact test or Chi-square test. The score of the SEGUE frame work was analyzed using Student's t test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The result of Scale of medical student's doctor-patient communication behavior showed only 37.71% of dental interns could establish good doctor-patient relationship in the first stage. After doctor-patient communication and communication skill training, the percentage became 75.4%. The result of the SEGUE frame work showed the score was raised from 16.066±3.308 to 21.867±2.456, and a significant difference was found between the two stages.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Doctor-Patient communication education can improve dental interns' communication skills and help to establish a good doctor-patient relationship.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Dentistry, Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai 200011, China. realwangyi@sina.com
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Ya-qin
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004497:Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations