TY - JOUR
T1 - A Cross-Specialty Examination of Resident Error Disclosure and Communication Skills Using Simulation
AU - Gardner, Aimee K.
AU - Lim, Gi
AU - Minard, Charles G.
AU - Guffey, Danielle
AU - Pillow, M. Tyson
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - Background : Disclosure of medical errors is important to patients and physicians, but formal disclosure training during the graduate medical education curriculum is limited. Objective : We examined resident competence related to error disclosure, using standardized patient (SP) ratings of resident communication skills. Methods : All first-year residents from medicine, radiology, emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery, and neurological surgery completed a 20-minute simulated session in which they were provided background information on a medical error they had made and were asked to disclose the error to an SP acting as a family member. Residents were then debriefed and completed a postscenario questionnaire. The SPs completed an 11-item communication assessment and 3 milestone rating tools on professionalism (PROF-1, PROF-3) and interpersonal and communication skills (ICS-1). Results : Ninety-six residents from a single institution participated toward the end of the intern year. Communication assessment scores ranged from 23% to 100% (mean [SD], 80.6 [17.0]). Mean (SD) milestone ratings across specialties were 2.80 ± 0.92 for PROF-1, 2.48 ± 0.92 for PROF-3, and 2.45 ± 0.92 for ICS-1. One-way analysis of variance revealed no significant differences among specialties on milestone or communication ratings. Residents who accepted personal responsibility for the error (84.55 [14.06]) received significantly higher communication ratings from SPs compared with residents who did not (66.67 [19.52], P < .001). Conclusions : This SP assessment of error disclosure by first-year residents from multiple specialties was feasible and acceptable. It revealed areas of improvement as well as considerable variation in communication skills and professionalism among residents.
AB - Background : Disclosure of medical errors is important to patients and physicians, but formal disclosure training during the graduate medical education curriculum is limited. Objective : We examined resident competence related to error disclosure, using standardized patient (SP) ratings of resident communication skills. Methods : All first-year residents from medicine, radiology, emergency medicine, orthopedic surgery, and neurological surgery completed a 20-minute simulated session in which they were provided background information on a medical error they had made and were asked to disclose the error to an SP acting as a family member. Residents were then debriefed and completed a postscenario questionnaire. The SPs completed an 11-item communication assessment and 3 milestone rating tools on professionalism (PROF-1, PROF-3) and interpersonal and communication skills (ICS-1). Results : Ninety-six residents from a single institution participated toward the end of the intern year. Communication assessment scores ranged from 23% to 100% (mean [SD], 80.6 [17.0]). Mean (SD) milestone ratings across specialties were 2.80 ± 0.92 for PROF-1, 2.48 ± 0.92 for PROF-3, and 2.45 ± 0.92 for ICS-1. One-way analysis of variance revealed no significant differences among specialties on milestone or communication ratings. Residents who accepted personal responsibility for the error (84.55 [14.06]) received significantly higher communication ratings from SPs compared with residents who did not (66.67 [19.52], P < .001). Conclusions : This SP assessment of error disclosure by first-year residents from multiple specialties was feasible and acceptable. It revealed areas of improvement as well as considerable variation in communication skills and professionalism among residents.
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U2 - 10.4300/JGME-D-17-00603.1
DO - 10.4300/JGME-D-17-00603.1
M3 - Article
C2 - 30154976
AN - SCOPUS:85064856473
SN - 1949-8349
VL - 10
SP - 438
EP - 441
JO - Journal of graduate medical education
JF - Journal of graduate medical education
IS - 4
ER -