2020 Volume 36 Issue 1 Pages 35-41
Abstract We are conducting OSCE based medical interview practice on paired students in the undergraduate clinical course by alternate role-play between patient and dentist. To prepare scenarios for simulated patients, a Simulated Patient Scenario Generator, which can output scenarios in various patterns, was developed and the scenarios were used in the practice. In this study, understandability, emotional involvement and length of scenarios were assessed by a questionnaire after the practice to examine the adequateness of the scenarios.
In the questionnaire, students were asked to evaluate understandability and emotional involvement on a four-point scale, and to evaluate length on a five-point scale.
Among 54 fifth-year students in the year of 2018, 45 (83.3%) answered that the scenarios were fully understandable, so there was almost no problem regarding the understandability of scenarios. Thirty (55.6%) students responded that they were fully emotionally involved, suggesting that nearly half of the students were less emotionally involved. Responses to the length of scenarios were found to be distributed mainly in “not too detailed nor too simplified.”
Although some degree of variation due to the understandability and the length of each scenario was found, there seemed to be no serious problems in the scenarios. Nearly half of the students failed to be fully emotionally involved. Students' lack of experience of the situations depicted in the scenarios may have influenced this result.
