TY - JOUR
T1 - Using a Lego™-Based Communications Simulation to Introduce Medical Students to Patient-Centered Interviewing
AU - Harding, Sheila Rutledge
AU - D'Eon, Marcel F.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Purpose: Teaching patient-centered interviewing skills to medical students can be challenging. We have observed that 1st-year medical students, in particular, do not feel free to concentrate on the interviewing skills because they are preoccupied with complicated technical medical knowledge. The Lego™ simulation we use with our 1st-year students as part of a professional-skills course overcomes that difficulty. Summary: The Lego activity is a role play analogous to a doctor-patient interview that uses identical sets of Legos for the "doctor" and for the "patients" and a small construction that represents a patient history. Conclusions: With a simple questionnaire, data were collected from students at different points during instruction. Results indicate that the Lego activity was very effective in helping students learn the importance of open-ended questioning. It also was rated as highly as the very dynamic interactive part of the instructional session. The effectiveness of the Lego activity may be due to the properties of analogies.
AB - Purpose: Teaching patient-centered interviewing skills to medical students can be challenging. We have observed that 1st-year medical students, in particular, do not feel free to concentrate on the interviewing skills because they are preoccupied with complicated technical medical knowledge. The Lego™ simulation we use with our 1st-year students as part of a professional-skills course overcomes that difficulty. Summary: The Lego activity is a role play analogous to a doctor-patient interview that uses identical sets of Legos for the "doctor" and for the "patients" and a small construction that represents a patient history. Conclusions: With a simple questionnaire, data were collected from students at different points during instruction. Results indicate that the Lego activity was very effective in helping students learn the importance of open-ended questioning. It also was rated as highly as the very dynamic interactive part of the instructional session. The effectiveness of the Lego activity may be due to the properties of analogies.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15328015TLM1302_8
DO - 10.1207/S15328015TLM1302_8
M3 - Article
C2 - 11302033
AN - SCOPUS:0035290374
SN - 1040-1334
VL - 13
SP - 130
EP - 135
JO - Teaching and Learning in Medicine
JF - Teaching and Learning in Medicine
IS - 2
ER -