Ability Development Training Center

Objective: To solve the unique communication difficulty in pediatrics, enhance medical students' skills and introduce SFM for the teaching and assessment of medical students' communication skills.Methods: 120 students from two classes were selected as research object; applied SFM to pediatrics skill teaching and assessment of SFM group while the conventional teaching method of teaching along with ward round of typical patients to traditional groups to compare students' questionnaire as well as performance in two groups.Results: The SFM group students' satisfaction in motivating learning interest, simulating/clinical communication environment, enhancing communication skill, clinical diagnostic ability and their test scores were higher than that of traditional group (P were 0.001, 0.000, 0.012, 0.026 ,0.001); the achievement scores of SFM group were obviously superior than that of traditional group (P=0.000).Conclusions: SFM can motivate students' learning interest and comprehensively enhance students' pediatrics communication skill, which deserves clinical teaching application.