title: Teaching medical students about communication in speech-language disorders: Effects of a lecture and a workshop.
abstract: This study aims to explore the effects of an interactive workshop involving speech-language pathology students on medical students' knowledge about communication in relation to speech-language disorders.
  
  
  
  Fifty-nine medical students received a lecture about speech-language disorders. Twenty-six of them also participated in a workshop on communication with patients with speech-language disorders. All students completed a 12-item questionnaire exploring knowledge and attitudes towards communication before and after the lecture or the workshop. The results from the two groups' self-ratings of confidence in knowledge were compared with expert-ratings of their ability to choose suitable communicative strategies.
  
  
  
  Both the lecture and the workshop increased the students' confidence in knowledge about speech-language disorders and how to support communication. Only the workshop group also displayed a statistically significant increase in expert-rated ability and changed their attitude regarding responsibility for the communication in cases of speech-language disorders. There were no statistically significant correlations between the student's own confidence ratings and the experts' ratings of ability.
  
  
  
  Increased confidence in knowledge from learning is not always reflected in actual knowledge in how to communicate. However, an interactive workshop proved to increase medical students' expert-rated ability and attitudes related to communication in cases of speech-language disorders.
authors.affiliation: a Unit of Speech and Language Pathology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology , University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden and.|b University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) , Gothenburg , Sweden.
authors.forename: Charlotta
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saldert
authors.affiliation: a Unit of Speech and Language Pathology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology , University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden and.|b University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) , Gothenburg , Sweden.
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Forsgren
authors.affiliation: a Unit of Speech and Language Pathology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology , University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden and.|b University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) , Gothenburg , Sweden.
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hartelius
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders; D008297:Male; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: communication disorder; medical students; person-centred care; speech-language pathology students; supported communication