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## Background: Patients provide emotional cues during consultations which may be verbal or non-verbal. many studies focus on patient verbal cues as predictors of physicians' ability to recognize and address patient needs but this project focused on non-verbal cues in the form of facial micro-expressions. this pilot study investigated first year medical students' (n = 75) identified as being either good or poor communicators abilities to detect emotional micro-expressions before and after training using the micro expression training tool (mett) http://www.mettonline.com. ## Methods: The sample consisted of 24 first year medical students, 9 were from the lowest performance quartile in a communication skills osce (objective structured clinical exam) station and 15 were from the highest performance quartile. these students completed the mett individually, recording pre- and post-assessment scores. students were also invited to provide their views on the training. ## Results: No difference in pre-assessment scores was found between the lowest and highest quartile groups (p = 0.797). after training, students in the high quartile showed significant improvement in the recognition of facial

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Author

Jennifer Endres; Anita Laidlaw

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1472-6920)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)