Using children as simulated patients in communication training for residents and medical students: A pilot program

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1114-1120

  Brown, Rachel ^a   Doonan, Suzanne ^a   Shellenberger, Sylvia ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DEPRESSION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; DEPRESSION; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 33644847384     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200512000-00010     Document Type: Review

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