Assessing medical students' communication skills by the use of standardized patients: Emphasizing standardized patients' quality assurance

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 354-360

  Shirazi, M ^a,b   Labaf, A ^a   Monjazebi, F ^a   Jalili, M ^a   Mirzazadeh, M ^a   Ponzer, S ^b   Masiello, I ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessment; Communication skill; Feedback; Medical student; Quality assurance; Standardized patient (SP); Validity and reliability of SP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903717207     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: 15457230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-014-0066-2     Document Type: Article

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