%0 Journal Article
%T Development and evaluation of a medication counseling workshop for physicians: can we improve on ¡®take two pills and call me in the morning¡¯?
%A Sunil Kripalani
%A Chandra Y. Osborn
%A Viola Vaccarino
%A Terry A. Jacobson
%J Medical Education Online
%D 2011
%I Co-Action Publishing
%R 10.3402/meo.v16i0.7133
%X Physicians often do not provide adequate medication counseling.To develop and evaluate an educational program to improve physicians¡¯ assessment of adherence and their medication counseling skills, with attention to health literacy.We compared internal medicine residents¡¯ confidence and counseling behaviors, measured by self-report at baseline and one month after participation in a two-hour interactive workshop.Fifty-four residents participated; 35 (65%) completed the follow-up survey. One month after training, residents reported improved confidence in assessing and counseling patients (p<0.001), including those with low health literacy (p<0.001). Residents also reported more frequent use of desirable behaviors, such as assessing patients¡¯ medication understanding and adherence barriers (p<0.05 for each), addressing costs when prescribing (p<0.01), suggesting adherence aids (p<0.01), and confirming patient understanding with teach-back (p<0.05).A medication counseling workshop significantly improved residents¡¯ self-reported confidence and behaviors regarding medication counseling one month later.
%K medication adherence
%K health literacy
%K health communication
%U http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/view/7133/pdf_229