Medical Improvisation Training for all Medical Students: 3-Year Experience.

Introduction: Effective communication has been shown to improve patients' health outcomes. This study utilizes medical improvisation techniques to teach communication skills to an entire medical school class.

Methods: Required workshops were held for entering third-year students from 2005 to 2017.

Scaling Up a Global Health and Disparities Path of Excellence Pilot Program at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Problem: Transforming medical school curricula to train physicians to better address society's needs is a complex task, as students must develop expertise in areas other than clinical medicine.

Approach: In 2010, the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) launched the Global Health and Disparities (GHD) Path of Excellence as part of a larger curriculum transformation. The GHD Path is a co-curriculum with the goal of ameliorating health disparities in the United States and abroad.

A first-year leadership programme for medical students.

Background: The established medical hierarchy, dramatic expansion of scientific knowledge and emphasis on value-based health care means that graduating physicians need to know how to manage and lead positive change. There is a critical gap in the teaching of these skills in undergraduate medical education.

Methods: Our medical school developed a first-year medical student competency-based leadership curriculum that focused on: leading yourself; teams and teamwork; influence and communication; problem solving; and systems thinking.

Scholarly Concentration Program Development: A Generalizable, Data-Driven Approach.

Purpose: Scholarly concentration programs-also known as scholarly projects, pathways, tracks, or pursuits-are increasingly common in U.S. medical schools.

Use of interactive theater and role play to develop medical students' skills in breaking bad news.

Creative arts have been increasingly implemented in medical education. This study investigated the use of interactive theater and role play with professional actors in teaching breaking bad news to medical students. The objectives were to explore the contexts, approaches, experiences, and reactions in giving and receiving bad news.

Impact of repeated health behavior counseling on women portraying an overweight standardized patient.

Objective: To investigate the influence of participation in a health behavior counseling (HBC) case by examining standardized patients' real-life attitudes and behaviors toward nutrition and physical activity habits.

Methods: Focus group sessions were held with 10 standardized patients who regularly participated in the HBC case. Emergent themes were identified using grounded theory data analysis.

Standardized Patient Instructor (SPI) interactions are a viable way to teach medical students about health behavior counseling.

Objectives: We explored comfort levels of third-year medical (M3) students through two health behavior counseling (HBC) interactions with Standardized Patient Instructors (SPIs) in tobacco cessation (TCC) and nutrition and physical activity (NPA).

Methods: Nearly 200 M3s participated in two SPI HBC interactions; including a role-play interview and subsequent feedback session on performance. Students completed a 5-point Likert scale evaluation measuring pre- and post-comfort level on two HBC sessions.