title: [Pedagogic focus-group in pediatrics].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess a new behavioral teaching technique called "focus group pedagogy" (FGP), which consists in a three-step meeting between sick children's parents and medical students (first with students alone, then with parents and students together, then with students alone).
  
  
  METHODS
  This qualitative research ran two sessions (each totaling four to six parents and six students) in which parents were questioned on four main themes: their knowledge of the medical hierarchy, their ability to identify the people in the hospital, their communication with medical staff, and the overall care delivered to their children. A thematic analysis of the verbatim transcript was performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the FGP sessions, medical students voiced opinions on their degree of insertion in the medical and paramedical staff, and reported their presence as ambiguous, between care and learning. Parents voiced their experience of their child's hospital stay but also their wider conception of the parent/patient-physician relationship based on their parent-of-patient/parent-as-patient experiences. The meeting of parents and students highlighted divergent narratives on relationships with caregivers, communication, attitudes, knowledge, and competencies. This approach made it possible to hear and learn the point of view "from the other side," which proved beneficial for students, session leaders, and the care unit organization alike.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  FGP is a novel and easy way to discover diverse narratives and the technique is feasible and beneficial in pediatric settings.
authors.affiliation: Inserm CIC 1405, service de pédiatrie, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 1, place Lucie-et-Raymond-Aubrac, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Electronic address: e_merlin@chu-clermontferrand.fr.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Merlin
authors.affiliation: Inserm CIC 1405, service de pédiatrie, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 1, place Lucie-et-Raymond-Aubrac, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chausset
authors.affiliation: Inserm CIC 1405, service de pédiatrie, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 1, place Lucie-et-Raymond-Aubrac, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verdan
authors.affiliation: Faculté de médecine, département de médecine générale, université d'Auvergne, place Henri-Dunand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cambon
authors.affiliation: Inserm CIC 1405, service de pédiatrie, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 1, place Lucie-et-Raymond-Aubrac, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sarret
authors.affiliation: Inserm CIC 1405, service d'hémato-oncologie pédiatrique, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 1, place Lucie-et-Raymond-Aubrac, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kanold
authors.affiliation: Faculté de médecine, université d'Auvergne, place Henri-Dunand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chazal
authors.affiliation: Inserm CIC 1405, service de pédiatrie, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 1, place Lucie-et-Raymond-Aubrac, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Labbé
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D017144:Focus Groups; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D010372:Pediatrics; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013337:Students, Medical