Motivational Interviewing Training for Medical Students: a Pilot Pre-post Study

Optimising the Relationship Between Medical Students and Patients Through a Motivational Interviewing Training Programme: a Pilot Pre-post Study

Objective is to evaluate the impact of a basic training programme in motivational interviewing (MI) for medical students, by comparing the ability of students to promote behavioural changes through relationship skills and to conduct a motivational interview before and after training.

Design: A pilot pre-post study in 20 students by comparing students' performance before and after MI training session.

Setting: Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France.

Interventions: Students received three four-hour sessions of a basic MI training over a one week period. The students interviewed for 15 minutes a caregiver playing the role of a patient, six weeks before and three weeks after the training.

Main outcome measures: Global scores by two independent raters who used the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) 3.1.1 code, perception of student's empathy by the caregivers (CARE questionnaire), self-efficacy of students to engage in a patient-centred relationship (SEPCQ score), and student's satisfaction with the odds of achieving the target goal.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students in clinical internships (fourth or fifth year of medical courses) in the Immunology-Infection-Inflammation-Endocrinology Division of Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris.
• signed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• participation refused
• prior training in motivational interviewing