Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Communication remains challenging to teach and evaluate. We designed an online patient survey to assess anesthesia residents' communication skills from August 2014 to July 2015. In December 2014, we implemented a customized, simulation-based curriculum. We calculated an overall rating for each survey by averaging the ratings for the individual questions. Based on the Hodges-Lehmann 2-sample aligned rank-sum test, overall ratings, reported as the median (interquartile range) of residents' average overall ratings, differed significantly between the preintervention (3.86 [3.76-3.94]) and postintervention (3.91 [3.84-3.95]) periods (P = .025). Future studies should assess the intervention's effectiveness and generalizability.
Source: Anesthesia & Analgesia
Authors: John D. Mitchell, Cindy Ku, Brendan Lutz, Sajid Shahul, Vanessa Wong, Stephanie B. Jones
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2919212584