Peer role-play and standardised patients in communication training: a comparative study on the student perspective on acceptability, realism, and perceived effect

Table 1 Training cases

Case	Medical problem	Communication problem
Case 2	Urticaria	Dramatizing mother
Case 3	Diarrhea	Foreign mother with poor command of German
Case 4	Abdominal pain	Conflict due to long waiting times
Case 5	Fever	Demanding mother
Case 6	Crying baby	Anxious and overburdened mother
Case 7	Meningism	Parents disapprove of drug administration
Case 8	Febrile seizure	Parents reject lumbar puncture of the child
Case 9	Dyspnea	Parents oppose admission of the child

Nine training cases were designed combining a medical and a communication problem.

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