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Comparison Of Dental Students' Self-Evaluation And Faculty Evaluation Of Communication Skills During A Standardized Patient Exercise, R. Constance Wiener, Christopher Waters, Joan Doris, Daniel W. Mcneil

Clinical and Translational Science Institute

The aims of this retrospective study, conducted in 2017, were to explore dental students’ perceptions of their first standardized patient encounters and to assess the relationship between students’ self-evaluation and faculty members’ evaluation of students’ communication skills in those encounters. Data from a simulation training laboratory at one U.S. dental school were obtained for all 46 second-year students, who had a standardized patient communication learning session. The students had completed self-evaluations before and after a debriefing with a clinical psychology and/or social work faculty member and three or four student peers. The faculty members had also completed evaluations of the …