Samoocena przygotowania studentów V i VI roku studiów medycznych do przekazywania informacji o niekorzystnej diagnozie
Fifth- and sixth-year medical students’ self-assessment of their preparation for delivering bad news

Author(s): Julia Przeniosło, Agata Kotłowska, Marcin Trzciński, Oliwia Lenkiewicz, Julia Lenkiewicz, Krzysztof Sobczak
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: delivering bad news; DBN; patient–doctor relationship; health communication; medical education
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research was to analyze the preparation of 5th and 6th-year students to deliver bad news (DBN) to future patients. We conducted a cross-sectional qualitative study using the CAWI technique. We analyzed 321 questionnaires filled by 321 students from 14 Polish medical universities. The majority of the researched sample (69.2%) chose the partnership model as a preferred mode of communication between the patient and the doctor. 63.6 percent of students witnessed a DBN situation during their clinical training. Students with the experience of DBN assess their DBN skills as unsatisfactory. Clinical education of medical students should create opportunities for students to experience DBN situations firsthand, as part of learning.

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