Evaluating a Faculty Development Course on Medical Interviewing

Abstract

Since 1983, the American Academy on Physician and Patient (formerly the Task Force on Doctor and Patient) has been conducting courses using Lipkin’s model on medical interviewing for medical school faculty interested not only in teaching medical interviewing but also in improving their interviewing skills. These courses are taught over two and a half days or five days at different medical schools in the United States and abroad. The origin of these courses, their underlying philosophy, and their content are described in chapter 36. In this chapter we will review some of the findings of the evaluation process used in the first five years of the annual five-day course to further refine the present-day courses.