Assessing validity of standardized patient ratings of medical students' communication behavior using the Roter interaction analysis system

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-9

  Price, Eboni G ^a   Windish, Donna M ^b   Magaziner, Jeffrey ^c   Cooper, Lisa A ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication skills; Medical students; RIAS; Standardized patients; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIDEOTAPE;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 37149054755     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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