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Improving students’ comfort in taking a female health history

2012 ASL ABSTRACTS
Objective
To assess if an interactive curriculum using standardized patients would improve second-year medical students’ comfort in taking a thorough female health history.

Study Design
One hundred second year students attended a 2 hour session on reproductive health history taking as part of the Preclinical Clerkship and completed a pre- and post-program survey to assess their comfort asking specific questions regarding reproductive health.

Results
Comfort asking about sexual history and asking about domestic violence improved from 33 to 82% (p=0.005) and 23 to 71% (p=<0.001), respectively. Improvement in comfort asking other questions varied from 42-60%.

Conclusions
Implementing a pre-clinical curriculum on female health history taking was followed by short-term improvement in students’ comfort asking patients about sensitive reproductive health issues.

Key words: female health history taking, student comfort

Topics: 2012, Faculty, Clerkship Director, Clerkship Coordinator, Patient Care, Interpersonal & Communication Skills, GME, Standardized Patient, General Ob-Gyn, Sexuality,

General Information

Date Presented
2012 ASL Abstract

Keywords
Communication Skills, Instructional Materials/Methods, Sexual Assault, Teaching Skills, Faculty Development

Intended Audience
Clerkship Director, Clerkship Coordinator

Copentencies Addressed
Patient Care
Interpersonal & Communication Skills

Educational Continuum
GME

Educational Focus
Standardized Patient

Clinical Focus
General Ob-Gyn, Sexuality 

Keywords
Communication Skills, Instructional Materials/Methods, Sexual Assault, Teaching Skills, Faculty Development,
Intended
Audience
Faculty,Clerkship Director,Clerkship Coordinator,
Competencies
Addressed
Patient Care,Interpersonal & Communication Skills,
Educational
Continuum
GME,
Educational
Focus
Standardized Patient,
Clinical Focus
General Ob-Gyn,Sexuality,

Author Information

Primary Author
Shefali R. Pathy, M.D., M.P.H.
 

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