Table 4.

Items from Assessment Instrument

Interview	1. Can make patients comfortable and set stage for medical visit
	2. Efficiently negotiate the patient’s agenda for the visit
	3. Elicit patient’s explanatory model for their illness
	4. Can elicit patient’s personal story in an open-ended manner
	5. Elicit the patent’s emotional reactions in an open ended manner
	6. Effectively inform the patient about necessary information
	7. Effectively motivate patient to change unhealthy behaviors
	8. Manage the patient’s expressed emotion
	9. Conduct the open ended, patient centered aspect of the medical interview efficiently
	10. Obtain patient’s description of physical symptoms in open-ended manner
Clinical	1. Effectively manage patients with substance abuse problems
	2. Effectively manage patients with many somatic symptoms without a disease explanation
	3. Effectively manage patients with anger/hostility
Teaching	1. Provide effective feedback on communication skills
	2. Facilitate small groups
	3. Teach in a learner-centered way
	4. Work effectively with a resistant learner
	5. Work effectively with a learner who dominates group
	6. Use role play or simulations to teach medical interviewing
	7. Recognize specific interviewing behaviors that promote or impede effective encounters
Personal Awareness	1. Promote personal growth in myself and others
	2. Recognize personal responses to patients and how they affect the interaction
	3. Recognize personal responses to learners and how they affect the interaction
Control Variables	1. Effectively manage patients with different socioeconomic needs
	2. Effectively manage patients with depression
	3. Effectively manage patients with anxiety
	4. Effectively work with patients from different cultural backgrounds
	5. Develop an interviewing skills curriculum for my institution
	6. Use videotape reviews to teach the medical interview