264 FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENTS' PERCEPTION OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS.
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Abstract
International medical graduates (IMGs) currently fill one-quarter of the positions in graduate medical education. The Academy of American Family Physicians (AAFP) estimates that approximately 48% of all first-year family medicine residents graduated from a US medical school. There are limited national data on the differences in self-perception and confidence between IMGs and USMGs in using their communication skills during the physician-patient encounter. Purpose The purpose of our study was (1) to assess differences in perception and confidence level of communication skills between USMGs and IMGs family medicine residents and (2) examine differences in perception and confidence level between first-, second-, and third-year postgraduates. Method Program directors at all accredited family medicine residencies were contacted via e-mail and asked to direct their residents to a voluntary anonymous cross-sectional Web-based survey. The questionnaire measured six areas: participant demographics, physician confidence level of using communication skills, the importance of using communication strategies for a positive patient outcome, the use of specific communication strategies, the importance of closing the encounter for a positive patient outcome, and the use of specific strategies for closing the patient encounter. Main Findings A total of 108 surveys were received from the on-line survey questionnaire, of which 27% were IMG and 72% of the respondents were USMG; 19.8% were PGY1, 42.5% PGY2, and 37.7% were PGY3; and 91.0% of respondents indicated that they were confident in their use of communication skills; however, they indicated a need to improve in 16 of 18 communication strategies. Respondents believed that communication strategies are important for positive patient outcomes and in closing the patient encounter; 95.9% of respondents indicated the importance of closing the patient encounter. Yet 92.3% replied that closing strategies were rarely or never implemented. Preliminary analysis also suggests differences in the confidence and use of communication skills between IMGs and USMGs. PGY1 felt less confident in all areas of their perception of patient communication in comparison with the other years. Conclusion Family medicine residents recognize the importance and the need of communication skills during their patient interaction. However, there is a gap between the perceived importance and practice of these skills. There may also be specific concerns relevant to IMGs in particular. Great effort is needed in increasing the use of communication strategies among residents and their patients to improve the likelihood of a positive patient encounter.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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