Teaching and evaluating breaking bad news: a pre-post evaluation study of a teaching intervention for medical students and a comparative analysis of different measurement instruments and raters.

Objective: To investigate changes of different domains of breaking bad news (bbn) competences after a teaching module for medical students, and to collage the results generated by different approaches of evaluation.

Methods: Rating of medical student-SP interactions by means of a global rating scale and a detailed checklist used by SPs and independent raters.

Results: Students improved their breaking bad news competency.