Abstract
Abstract Currently, clinical practice is required to participate in clinical practice, and practice before clinical practice is essential. At Matsumoto Dental University, medical interview exercises are held as clinical preparatory exercises in the latter half of the fourth year.
There are many international students from Greater China at our university, and it has been desired to strengthen the minimum medical communication skills at clinical practice.
This time, we compared the skills of international students with those of Japanese students in the medical communication exercises conducted at our university before clinical training during the exercises for 184 international students during the 5 years from 2008 to 2012 first period and 2013 to 2017 second period.
As a result, the international students could not listen to all the questions in the early stage of the exercise, but their skills improved with practice. Furthermore, in the second term, the international students achieved the same results as the Japanese students.
It was shown the number of listening memo items increased. On the other hand, there were some international students who were unable to obtain, summarize the contents of the interview and assess empathetic attitudes.
We concluded that the medical interview skills international students improved through these exercises.
