Trainees' communication skills are assessed from video recordings of consultations conducted by the trainees (communication video assessment).
We have provided a framework for several interventions that might improve transparency in supervisor-trainee communication about supervision.
Studies have shown that assessments by SPs who have been trained in evaluating medical trainees' communication skills are valid when compared with professional observers' ratings.
The observers of the trainees' communication skills were faculty members experienced in using the Arizona Clinical Interview Rating Scale (ACIR) [ 7].
Our main finding was an acceptable agreement between the SPs' scores of satisfaction with the medical trainees in the consultations and the independent observers' assessments of the same trainees' communication skills (ACIR scores) as demonstrated by the predictive power values.
Four parallel group sessions then focused on core content and process issues for paediatric trainees: communication and interviewing skills, management of children and adolescents with recurrent aches and pains and intentional overdose.
This indicates that a satisfactory assessment given by an SP (an actor by profession in this study) can be useful for evaluating the effects of educational programs on medical trainees' communication skills.
not significant, POP patient-only positive, PON patient-only negative Items with a significant difference between groups are shown in bold The medical trainees' communication skills were assessed by a male psychiatrist (66 years) with many years of experience in teaching and evaluation using the ACIR.
During this procedure, the blood-drawing technique and the trainee's communication skills were assessed based on the structured assessment sheet (Table 1).
It is unclear to what extent SPs who have not been trained to evaluate medical trainees can rate their satisfaction with a consultation and whether their score can serve as a reliable measure of the quality of a trainee's communication skills compared with evaluation by a professional observer.
