Interview skills training

Overcoming Barriers to Skills Training in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Qualitative Interview Study

Despite evidence suggesting that skills training is an important mechanism of change in dialectical behaviour therapy, little research exploring facilitators and barriers to this process has been conducted. The study aimed to explore clients' experiences of barriers to dialectical behaviour therapy skills training and how they felt they overcame these barriers, and to compare experiences betwee...

Personalized remedial intensive training of one medical student in communication and interview skills.

BACKGROUND Medical students found to be deficient in communication and interview skills pose a difficult remediation challenge. There is no standard way to address such deficiencies. The authors describe the development and implementation of an intensive remedial curriculum. DESCRIPTION A 2nd-year student found deficient in communication skills was held back for a year and paired with a clini...

Training generalized spatial skills.

Spatial transformation skills are an essential aspect of cognitive ability. These skills can be improved by practice, but such improvement has usually been specific to tasks and stimuli. The present study investigated whether intensive long-term practice leads to change that transcends stimulus and task parameters. Thirty-one participants (14 male, 17 female) were tested on three cognitive task...

Capturing and Training Motor Skills

Evolution of surgical skills training.

Surgical training is changing: one hundred years of tradition is being challenged by legal and ethical concerns for patient safety, work hours restrictions, the cost of operating room time, and complications. Surgical simulation and skills training offers an opportunity to teach and practice advanced skills outside of the operating room environment before attempting them on living patients. Sim...