摘要：A community-academic partnership program between USM academician, State Education and USM medical student was designed to improve communication skills among secondary school children. Evaluation was done on the impacts of the program on communication skills based on MySTAR inventory. A pre-post quasi-experimental study design was done. The MySTAR was administered to participants before and after the program. The highest improvement was seen in communicating English and the least in communicating Malay. The program is a smart-partnership approach that involves group and peer support with role model by the medical students to improve communication skill in the school children.
关键词：Communication skills;Medical Student;Secondary school students;community academic partnership
