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Nat Med
January 2025
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into clinical diagnostics has the potential to transform doctor-patient interactions. However, the readiness of these models for real-world clinical application remains inadequately tested. This paper introduces the Conversational Reasoning Assessment Framework for Testing in Medicine (CRAFT-MD) approach for evaluating clinical LLMs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Empathy between doctors and patients is crucial in enhancing patient satisfaction with medical consultations. This study, grounded in empathy theory, employs natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to explore the factors influencing patient satisfaction in online healthcare services, particularly the impact of doctor-patient empathy.
Methods: Utilizing the three dimensions of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, seven variables were extracted from patient-doctor dialogs as independent variables, with patient satisfaction as the dependent variable.
BMC Med Educ
December 2024
Graduate Program in Child and Adolescent Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background: Effective communication with patients and their families is a fundamental skill for medical students to cultivate during their undergraduate training. However, communicating with pediatric patients presents unique challenges. This study investigated the perceptions, attitudes, and confidence levels of undergraduate medical students regarding communication skills in pediatrics.
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December 2024
Hospital of Stomatology, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Background: Clinical reception training plays a crucial role in developing undergraduates' clinical thinking and competence. The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical reception training conducted by standard patients (SPs) and dental simulators among undergraduate students.
Materials And Methods: In the first week of the internship, sixty-five 5-year undergraduate students were divided into two groups: SP group, which received traditional theoretical training along with clinical reception training, and control group that only received traditional theoretical training.
J Family Med Prim Care
November 2024
Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rajkot, Gujarat, India.
Background: Effective communication is a critical and fundamental element of a successful medical practice and exerts a substantial influence on patient contentment, adherence, and disease outcome. This study was planned to identify domains for improvement in doctor-patient communication to enhance good practices in the future.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 500 randomly selected samples of clinicians from government or private medical colleges across India.
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