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Donald C Fidler1, Justin Daniel Petri, Mark Chapman
1West Virginia University, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, 930 Chestnut Ridge Rd., Morgantown, WV 26505, USA. dfidler@hsc.wvu.edu
Objective:
The authors review the literature about educational programs for teaching sexual history-taking skills and describe novel techniques for teaching these skills.
Methods:
Psychiatric residents enrolled in a brief sexual history-taking course that included instruction on the Sexual Events Classification System, feedback on residents' video-recorded interviews with simulated patients, discussion of videos that simulated bad interviews, simulated patients, and a competency scoring form to score a video of a simulated interview. After the course, residents completed an anonymous survey to assess the usefulness of the experience.
Results:
After the course, most residents felt more comfortable taking sexual histories. They described the Sexual Events Classification System and simulated interviews as practical methods for teaching sexual history-taking skills.
Conclusion:
The Sexual Events Classification System and simulated patient experiences may serve as a practical model for teaching sexual history-taking skills to general psychiatric residents.
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