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Research Article

An Investigation into Student Dietitians’ Professional Development through Video-Mediated Communication Training on Patient Counselling

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Published online: 21 May 2024
 

ABSTRACT

The aim of the study is to describe a student dietitian’s professional development process in a video-mediated communication skills training cycle designed for undergraduate nutrition and dietetics education and including activities such as simulated and real patient counseling, feedback, and reflection. The design of the training cycle is inspired by (reflective) interventionist Conversation Analysis (CA) through researcher and trainer collaboration, and the data comes from the screen-recordings of video-mediated meetings. CA is used to analyze the video-mediated interactions on a moment-by-basis and trace the student dietitian’s interactional change over time. CA examination of the data showed that the trainer identified listenership in simulated sessions as an improvable practice (i.e. due to repetitive overlaps and cutoffs) and used it as the basis for the intervention. In the post-intervention period, the student dietitian observably improved her listenership both in simulated and real patient counseling sessions. The video-mediated, interventionist, reflective, and data-led cycle played a role in the development of the interactional and professional practice of the student dietitian in ways transferrable to real patient counseling. The training cycle with evidence-based lectures, data-led interventions, and simulated/real patient counseling can be integrated to dietetics education curricula both for clinical communication training and preparing for future teleconsultation practices.

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