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Use of a Standardized Patient in Teaching Medical Students to Assess for PTSD in Military Veteran Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The purpose of this resource is to introduce first- and second-year medical students to the psychiatric concerns of military veterans. The number of veterans receiving care outside of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) results in many nonVHA medical doctors treating military veterans; thus, it is important that medical students have exposure to military veterans and their unique issues during medical training. A noncombat veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was specifically chosen for this training to highlight the fact that PTSD can result from a number of different traumatic events that one may experience during military service.

Methods

The student learners were presented with an hour-long didactic on PTSD, depression, and suicide in military veterans. They subsequently engaged in an hour-long simulation with a standardized patient who was trained in the symptom presentation of PTSD. Each student in the class had an opportunity to complete a medical interview with the standardized patient (SP) and receive feedback from both their peers and the SP. The student learners then evaluated the learning experience.

Results

Feedback for the course was overwhelmingly positive. The average response to the quality of the presentation question was 4.83 out of 5 (with 1 = poor; 5 = outstanding).

Discussion

The results indicate that using SPs is a valuable learning modality for teaching medical students about psychiatric concerns in the veteran population.

SUBMITTER: Fabrizio J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338190 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Use of a Standardized Patient in Teaching Medical Students to Assess for PTSD in Military Veteran Patients.

Fabrizio Jennifer J DeNardi Kathleen K Boland Michael M Suffoletto Jo-Anne JA

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 20170726

<h4>Introduction</h4>The purpose of this resource is to introduce first- and second-year medical students to the psychiatric concerns of military veterans. The number of veterans receiving care outside of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) results in many nonVHA medical doctors treating military veterans; thus, it is important that medical students have exposure to military veterans and their unique issues during medical training. A noncombat veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTS ...[more]

PMID: 30800810

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Dataset Information

Use of a Standardized Patient in Teaching Medical Students to Assess for PTSD in Military Veteran Patients.

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

Publications

Use of a Standardized Patient in Teaching Medical Students to Assess for PTSD in Military Veteran Patients.

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