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TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between facilitating emotional cues and medical students’ clinical communication performance in qualifying exams
AU - Leadbetter, P.
AU - Fletcher, I.
AU - O’Sullivan, H.
PY - 2023/7/6
Y1 - 2023/7/6
N2 - A cross-sectional study design explored the relationship between medical students’ Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) clinical communication ratings and their responsiveness to simulated patient (SP) verbal emotional cues in their qualifying OSCE. Data were collected from two cohorts of fourth-year medical students (n = 37), and responses to patient cues that facilitated further disclosure or related discussion – known as provide space responses – from two OSCE communication stations were measured by coding video footage with the Verona Coding Definition of Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES).The 37 medical students were representative of the larger cohort (n = 508) in terms of age. A significant positive correlation with a medium effect was found between OSCE clinical communication ratings and provide space responses. OSCE clinical communication ratings could differentiate between students who adopted patient-centred facilitative behaviours and those who did not.
AB - A cross-sectional study design explored the relationship between medical students’ Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) clinical communication ratings and their responsiveness to simulated patient (SP) verbal emotional cues in their qualifying OSCE. Data were collected from two cohorts of fourth-year medical students (n = 37), and responses to patient cues that facilitated further disclosure or related discussion – known as provide space responses – from two OSCE communication stations were measured by coding video footage with the Verona Coding Definition of Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES).The 37 medical students were representative of the larger cohort (n = 508) in terms of age. A significant positive correlation with a medium effect was found between OSCE clinical communication ratings and provide space responses. OSCE clinical communication ratings could differentiate between students who adopted patient-centred facilitative behaviours and those who did not.
KW - communication
KW - emotional cues
KW - medical students
KW - video coding
KW - OSCE
U2 - 10.1558/cam.21492
DO - 10.1558/cam.21492
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 258
EP - 271
JO - Communication and Medicine
JF - Communication and Medicine
IS - 3
ER -