Korean journal of medical education

The Korean Society of Medical Education (한국의학교육학회)
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The effectiveness of communication skills of Pre-medical students

의예과 학생들의 의사소통 교육효과

Kim, Seon;Lee, Su-Jeong;Choe, Chang-Jin;Heo, Ye-Ra
김선;이수정;최창진;허예라

  • Published : 20060000
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Abstract

Communication skills are essential skills which medical students need to acquire in order to become a doctor. More attention is being given to the subject but not many studies have been done in the medical education field. As communication skills are provided to students as a subject in medical educational curriculum, the assessment of its effectiveness needs to be undertaken. Methods: In the year 2005 and 2006, second year pre-medical students at The Catholic University College of Medicine took ‘Communication Skills' course in total, 180 second year pre-medical students' survey results were used in the evaluation of the study question. The instrument used in the study was the modified and translated version of ‘Beyer-Fetzer's Essential Elements of Communication Skills Assessment Sheet.' The assessment sheets were used as the pre-test and post-test to analyse the differences, which were put through the paired t-test. Results: All categories of communication skills showed an improvement. For year 2005, meaningful differences were shown in ‘opening the discussion(p=.005)' and ‘sharing information (p=.008)', whereas in 2006, improvements were shown in all areas. Conclusion: From the result, it is clear that in order to create an effective communication skills program, the content should be more structured and focused on the program objectives.

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