Patient Satisfaction With Medical Students' Clinical Skills: comparison of randomly selected hospital patients and trained patients

Abstract

Recently, instead of using hospital inpatients for medical student assessment needs, a panel of patients have been trained for clinical assessment use. Apart from their assessment value, they have also provided feedback to the students and Faculty of their satisfaction with the students' clinical skills. Because of doubts that trained patients are a specially selected group which may not represent patients in general, a comparison of patient satisfaction-dissatisfaction reactions with third year medical students was made using hospital inpatients and trained patients.

The reactions of the two groups were similar. Hospital inpatients did appear to find students rougher during physical examination which may reflect their convalescent situation.