Brouwers, M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8614-7692
Custers, J.
Bazelmans, E.
van Weel, C.
Laan, R.
van Weel-Baumgarten, E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum
Article History
Received: 6 March 2018
Accepted: 15 April 2019
First Online: 29 April 2019
Authors’ information
: MB is a general practitioner, junior principal lecturer and PhD-student at the Department of Primary and Community Care of the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her focus of research is the development of clinical communication skills training and assessment of medical students.JC, PhD, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.EB, PhD is a clinical psychologist and principal lecturer in the Department of Medical Psychology of the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her main interests and expertise concern how behavioural medicine improves healthcare: education of knowledge and skills, for medical doctors and health care psychologists.CvW is an emeritus professor of Family Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and honorary professor of primary health care research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He is past president of the World Organization of Family Doctors WONCA. Research expertise is in the long-term outcome of patients with chronic morbidity.RL is a professor of Medical Education and director of Medical Education at the Radboud University Medical Centre, and head of the Radboudumc Health Academy, Nijmegen, The Netherlands..EvW-B is an associate professor in medical communication, emeritus at the Department of Primary and Community care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and president of EACH: International Association for Communication in Healthcare. Her interests include research and teaching of communication skills, including faculty development and implementation issues.
: The study was conducted with permission of the Radboudumc Ethical Review Board: they ruled that the study was exempt of review as participation was voluntary and anonymous and no ethical approval was required for implementation and quality improvement studies in medical education at that time. We carefully worked according to the declaration of Helsinki; original data were treated strictly confidentially and were available for two researchers only (MB, JC). All analyses were conducted anonymously. All participants gave written informed consent. Completing the BOCC tool by the fourth year students was voluntary and anonymous. We informed these students that their decision whether or not to collaborate would neither be recorded nor affect their study progress.
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