TY  - JOUR
T1  - ENhancing knowledge and clinical skills through an adolescent medicine workshop
AU  - Feddock CA, Hoellein AR, Griffith CH, Wilson JF, Lineberry MJ, Haist SA
Y1  - 2009/03/02
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.559
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 256
EP  - 260
VL  - 163
IS  - 3
N2  - Objective 
    To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients.Design 
    Randomized controlled trial.Setting 
    The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington.Participants 
    A total of 186 third-year medical students.Intervention 
    Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n = 95) participated in a 4-hour adolescent medicine workshop using standardized patients to practice interviewing and counseling skills. Medical students assigned to the control group (n = 91) participated in an alternative workshop.Outcome Measures 
    Medical student adolescent interviewing and counseling skills were assessed using adolescent standardized patient encounters during the end-of-clerkship examination and during the end of the third-year Clinical Performance Examination. Medical student knowledge was assessed at the end of the clerkship using an open-ended postencounter written exercise and the questions specific to adolescent medicine on the clerkship written examination.Results 
    Both groups had comparable baseline characteristics. Medical students in the intervention group scored significantly higher on both measures of clinical skills, the standardized patient stations during the end-of-clerkship examination and the Clinical Performance Examination. Intervention medical students also scored significantly higher on both measures of knowledge, the open-ended postencounter written exercise and the written examination.Conclusions 
    A brief adolescent medicine workshop using standardized patients improved medical students' knowledge and skills at the end of a 4-week clerkship, and the improvement in clinical skills persisted at the end of the third year of medical school.
SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.559
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.559
ER  -