Does a new integrated PBL curriculum with specific communication skills classes produce Pre Registration House Officers (PRHOs) with improved communication skills?

Medical Teacher

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 264-269

  Watmough, Simon ^a   Garden, Anne ^a   Taylor, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPETENCE; CONSULTATION; CURRICULUM; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTERVIEWS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33744913040     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590600605173     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Doherty, E and O'Boyle, CA and Shannon, W and McGee, H and Bury, G. (1991) Communications skills training in undergraduate medicine Irish Medical Journal, 83, pp. 54-56.
2. General Medical Council.(1993) Tomorrow's Doctors. London: GMC.
3. General Medical Council.(1997) The New Doctor. London: GMC.
4. General Medical Council.(2003) Tomorrow's Doctors 2nd. London: GMC.
5. Humphris, GM and Kaney, S. (2001) Asessing the development of communication skills in undergraduate medical students Medical Education, 35, pp. 225-231.
6. Jones, A and McArdle, PJ and O'Neill, PA. (2001) How well prepared for the role of pre-registration house officer? A comparison of the perceptions of new graduates and educational supervisors Medical Education, 35, pp. 578-584.
7. Jones, A and McArdle, PJ and O'Neill, PA. (2002) Perceptions of how well graduates are prepared for the role of pre-registration house officer: A comparison of outcomes from a traditional and integrated PBL curriculum Medical Education, 36, pp. 16-25.
8. Krueger, RA.(1997) Analysing and reporting focus group results. California: Sage Publications.
9. Miles, MB and Huberman, MA.(1994) Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook 2nd. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications.
10. Norris, N. (1997) Error, bias and validity in qualitative research Educational Action Research, 5, pp. 172-176.
11. Ritchie, J and Spencer, L.(1994) Qualitative data analysis for applied policy research. In Analysing Qualitative Data. (pp. 173-194). London: Routledge.
12. Ross, M. (1989) Relation of implicit theories to the construction of personal histories Psychological Review, 96, pp. 341-357.
13. Roter, DL and Hall, JL and Kern, DE and (1995) Improving physicians' interviewing skills and reducing patients' emotional stress Archives of Internal Medicine, 155, pp. 1877-1884.
14. Strauss, A and Corbin, J.(1998) Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory 2nd. London: Sage Publications.
15. The University of Liverpool.(2004) MBChB Generic Programme Handbook 2004/ 2005. Available at (accessed 4 October 2004)
16. Van Dalen, J and Kerkhofs, E and van Knippenberg-van Den Berg, BW and (2002) Longitudinal and concentrated communication skills programmes: two Dutch Medical Schools compared Advances in Health Sciences Education, 7, pp. 29-40.
17. Wagner, PJ and Lentz, L and Heslop, SD. (2002) Teaching communication skills: A skills-based approach Academic Medicine, 77, pp. 1164.
18. Ward, B and Moody, G and Mayberry, JF. (1997) The views of medical students and junior doctors on pre-graduate clinical teaching Postgraduate Medical Journal, 73, pp. 723-725.
19. Willis, S and Jones, A and O'Neill, P. (2003) Can undergraduate education have an effect on the ways in which pre-registration house officers conceptualise communication? Medical Education, 37, pp. 603-608.
20. Yedidia, MJ and Gillespic, CC and Kachur, E and (2003) Effect of communications training on medical student performance Journal of the American Medical Association, 290, pp. 1157-1165.