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  • 标题:A Family Systems Curriculum: Evaluating Skills and Empathy
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  • 作者:Rebekah Schiefer, MSW, LCSW ; Sheldon Levy ; Rebecca Rdesinski, MSW, MPH
  • 期刊名称:Family Medicine
  • 印刷版ISSN:0742-3225
  • 电子版ISSN:1938-3800
  • 出版年度:2021
  • 卷号:53
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:54-57
  • DOI:10.22454/FamMed.2021.391849
  • 出版社:Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
  • 摘要:Background and Objectives: Training residents in family-centered approaches offers an opportunity to investigate how learners translate skills to real clinical encounters. Previous evaluations of a family systems curriculum have relied on self-assessment and narrative reflection to assess resident learning. Assessment of learning using encounter observation and objective tools, including evaluation of empathy, allows for a deeper understanding of how residents transform curricular education into clinical practice. Methods: We evaluated resident learning from a longitudinal family systems curriculum delivered during the third year of a four-year residency training program. Using the Family-Centered Observation Form (FCOF), we analyzed seven pre- and postcurriculum videotaped encounters for changes in family-centered interviewing skills. We assessed changes in empathy before and after the curriculum using the Jefferson Empathy Scale. Results: There was a trend toward improvement in all family-centered skills, as measured by the FCOF, though the improvements were only statistically significant in the area of rapport building. Statistically significant improvement in empathy occurred for all participants. Narrative reflection demonstrated that residents found the curriculum valuable in ways that we were unable to objectively measure. Conclusions: Training in family systems can enhance patient interactions and may improve empathy. Evaluation of family-centered skills is challenging and takes a significant amount of time and planning. The FCOF can help learners identify how to use family-centered concepts and skills in a typical family medicine outpatient visit. Further study is needed to determine whether patients seen by doctors who use family-oriented skills have better experiences or outcomes.
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