Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach|Dana L. Casey|Lucy Schulson|Peter Gliatto|Jonathan Giftos|Reena Karani
Health Literacy in Transitions of Care: An Innovative Objective Structured Clinical Examination for Fourth-Year Medical Students in an Internship Preparation Course
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Albert Einstein College of Medicine|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
low health literacy associated adverse health outcomes especially transitions care competencybased assessments may improve communication time develop objective structured clinical examination osce medical students demonstrate communication skills used hospital discharge process patients low health literacy osce integrated curriculum internship preparatory clerkship one hundred one fourthyear medical students participated students received skillsbased health literacy workshop osce learners counseled standardized patients regarding initiation anticoagulation discharge wrote discharge instructions fiftyseven students completed workshop prior osce 44 participated workshop completing osce participants completed workshop first outperformed peers checklist 151 vs 134 p 00001 reading level written instructions 99 vs 106 p 001 82 felt confident communicating patients low health literacy workshop osce osce tool train evaluate future interns ability communicate patients limited health literacy levels hospital discharge innovations may make period time safer patients improving health outcomes