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Table 1 Communication pattern per section and number of supervisors selecting a scene within each section

From: Communication skills supervisors’ monitoring of history-taking performance: an observational study on how doctors and non-doctors use cues to prepare feedback

Time code (Duration)

Communication pattern

Predominant communication challenge

Predominant performance judgment

Number of supervisors selecting scene (s)a

All n = 17

Doctors n = 10

Non-doctors n = 7

00:00–00:05 (5 s)

Structuring

Opening (hand shake)

negative

2

2

0

00:06–00:10 (5 s)

Structuring

ID check (using the computer)

negative & positive

8

5

3

00:11–00:30 (19 s)

Structuring

Introduce oneself

positive

4

2

2

00:11–00:30 (19 s)

Structuring

Set interview goals

negative & positive

3

2

1

00:11–00:30 (19 s)

Structuring

Set time frame (time pressure)

negative

13

7

6

00:31–00:33 (2 s)

Structuring

Opening question

positive

3

1

2

00:34–02:30 (1 min 56 s)

Facilitating

Biomedical details, listening, understanding, clarifying

very positive & negative

11

6

5

00:34–02:30 (1 min 56 s)

Facilitating

Patient’s perspective, listening, understanding, clarifying

positive & negative

10

3

7

02:31–03:25 (54 s)

Structuring

Summarizes and checks with patient, balancing important information

positive & negative

10

7

3

03:26–03:35 (9 s)

Structuring

Transition statement and opening question for topic ‘background information’

positive

3

2

1

03:36–05:05 (1 min 29 s)

Facilitating

Biomedical details, listening, understanding, clarifying

positive & negative

8

5

3

03:36–05:05 (1 min 29 s)

Facilitating

Patient’s perspective, listening, understanding, clarifying

positive & negative

1

0

1

05:06–05:23 (17 s)

Structuring

Summarizes and checks with patient, balancing important information

positive & negative

8

4

4

05:26–06:10 (44 s)

Structuring

Transition and opening ‘What’s next?’

positive

10

6

4

06:11–06:19 (9 s)

Structuring

End encounter

negative & positive

8

5

3

  1. Notes: Structuring = communication pattern targeting at structuring the encounter (e.g. interviewer’s utterances such as summarizing or transition statements and information retrieval). Facilitating = communication pattern targeting at facilitating the patient’s narrative (e.g. Interviewer behaviour such as silence following a question, using verbal facilitators (‘hm’), showing nonverbal facilitators (‘nodding’), actively repeating the patient’s utterances to emphasize attention and understanding). Predominant Communication Challenge: determined based on the conversational model of Kurz, Silverman and Draper (2005). Predominant performance judgments: determined based on supervisors’ performance judgements (positive/negative) for their selected scenes
  2. aAll supervisors, except one, indicated only one scene within each section