An Educational Program of Psychosomatic Medicine for Medical Undergraduates : A training course for counseling-oriented medical interviewing(How the Education of Psychosomatic Medicine Should Be)

Abstract

A training course in medical interviewing has been introduced to medical undergraduates in Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University since 1988. This training program is based on Microcounseling Training (MCT) reported by lvey. The course has been performed as a 4-hour single session of miniworkshop. Four to 6 trainees studied the basic attention skills in each session. The skills include attending behavior, introduction, questioning, Iistening, summarization, focusing and integration of the skills. Short lectures, demonstrations, role plays, feedback and discussion are used for the training in the session. The procedures of the training course are stated precisely and concretely in this report.