To investigate the current status of doctor-patientcommunication of pediatric residents, and to explore the specific demand of communication skills training in clinical practice.
In terms of the doctor-patientcommunicationability, the results showed that the satisfaction degree of pediatric resident surgeons was higher than that of pediatric resident physicians (78.9% vs. 58.5%, P=0.108) and the satisfaction degree of high-seniority residents was higher than that of low-seniority residents (78.6% vs. 62.5%, P=0.330; 78.6% vs. 58.9%, P=0.278). Besides, the importance of communication objectives and the degree of difficulty were sorted in order, and the top three were family members, superior and children for importance, and family members, children and nurses for difficulty, respectively. The main reasons of difficult communication included heavy work (41.6%) and lack of communication skills (46.7%), with no statistical difference between different majors and seniorities ( P >0.05). More than 80% residents agreed that effective doctor-patientcommunication could promote the clinical work. The lower of seniority, the higher demands for the class time allocation and teaching frequency of doctor-patientcommunicationtraining courses.
Conclusion:
Pediatric residents have a good cognition of medical doctor-patientcommunication. There are some obvious communication problems in pediatric physicians and low-seniority pediatric residents. Therefore, it's necessary to adjust courses according to different majors and seniorities, so as to improve the training quality, thereby promoting the clinical work and reform of medical education.