Title
The influence of simulated patient counselling training sessions on intern communication skills: A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study
Authors
Puneeta Gupta1, Neerupama Dogra2, Rohit Raina3,*, Supinder Singh1 & Sunakshi Sharma1
Affiliation
1Department of General Medicine, Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS), Jammu, India; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Acharaya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS), Jammu, India; 3Department of General Medicine, AIIMS, Bathinda, Punjab, India; *Corresponding author
Puneeta Gupta - E-mail: drpuneetagupta1@gmail.com
Neerupama Dogra - E-mail: dogra.neerupama@gmail.com
Rohit Raina - E-mail: rohitraina103@yahoo.com, rohitraina@aiimsbathinda.edu.in
Supinder Singh - E-mail: supindersingh109@gmail.com
Sunakshi Sharma - E-mail: sharmasunakshi25@gmail.com
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received May 1, 2026; Revised May 31, 2026; Accepted May 31, 2026, Published May 31, 2026
Abstract
The poor communication skills among doctors are one of the reasons for workplace violence (WPV) against medical professionals. The usefulness of role play as a tool to teach basic communication and counseling skills to the interns (who would very soon be first year residents) and to analyse and assess the perception of students and faculty towards role play sessions as a teaching -learning method. The 36 interns posted in the department of medicine were randomly divided into 6 groups and distributed as a treating physician, patient, family member and observers and were asked to perform role play of given clinical scenarios before and after the workshop conducted in the department. The pre-training average score for each response had lower values (M = 5, SD = 0.9) than the post-training average score for each response (M =8.46, SD = 1.92). Role-play sensitization workshop followed by detailed debriefing had a positive impact on communication skills in interns in clinical based scenarios.
Keywords
Communication skill, role play, simulation, Kalamazoo consensus statement
Citation
Gupta et al. Bioinformation 22(5): 2853-2858 (2026)
Edited by
P Kangueane
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
