Displaying Prior Knowledge and Emergent Interactional Troubles in Standardised Patient-Medical Student Interaction
Journal Title: Mersin Üniversitesi Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi - Year 2015, Vol 12, Issue 2
Abstract
Previous research on medical interaction has shown that there is a link between effective doctor-patient interaction and success in medical services (Drew, Chatwin ve Collins, 2001). In relation to this, there are now a growing number of studies on doctor-patient interaction in medical education, and many universities in the world have started using communication training and samples of “standardised patients-medical student” interactions in order to help students understand clinical encounters. In this paper, preliminary findings based on a database of standardised patient-medical student interactions in a Turkish university will be presented. The data comes from a video corpus of 71 simulated patient-medical student interactions. The study employs a Conversation Analysis methodology, investigating participants’ verbal and non-verbal contributions in talk from micro-analytic and sequential perspectives. One of the phenomena that emerged from the database is the interactional trouble that emerges once a medical student displays previous knowledge on a patient’s case. The findings show that after such displays of knowledge, interactional troubles including repair sequences, long silences, and attempts to terminate on-going talk emerge. These findings may have contributions for developing training programmes in Turkey and beyond, as they point us to interactional troubles that are important in medical communication.
Authors and Affiliations
Olcay Sert, Merve Bozbıyık, Melih Elçin, Sevgi Turan
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