Medical undergraduates' use of behaviour change talk: the example of facilitating weight management

Conclusions: Current skills-based communication programmes do not adequately prepare future doctors for the growing task of facilitating weight management. Students are able to generalise some communication skills to these encounters, but are over confident and have limited ability to use evidence-based theoretically informed techniques. They recognise this as a learning need. Educators will need to tackle the challenges of integrating theoretically informed and evidence based behaviour change talk within medical training.
Source: BMC Medical Education - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Source Type: research