In March 2019, PowerPoint educational materials were emailed to one academic institution's new surgical interns, who in June participated in an onsite 1-hour role-play "hot seat" group activity (GA) with an untrained simulated patient, and in October completed a single trained simulated patient (real-time raters) verification of proficiency (VOP) assessment. 
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Journal of graduate medical education
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007396:Internship and Residency
Anderson Tiffany N TN ;Kaba Aboubacar A ;Gros Eniola E ;Schmiederer Ingrid S IS ;Shi Robert R ;Aalami Lauren R LR ;Lin Dana T DT ;Lau James N JN 