Motivational Interviewing Training for Medical Students: a Pilot Pre-post Study

"The students received three four-hour sessions of basic motivationnal interviewing training :~1. Viewing and commenting on video clips illustrating motivational and non-motivational doctor-patient interactions.~2. Lectures and the distribution of memory aids.~3. Practical exercises: making reflections, asking open questions; exploring ambivalence; dealing with resistance; expressing empathy, summarising.~4. Role-playing, based on several situations, each involving two students. The investigators deliberately chose a non-medical situation (conflict between a mother and a student asking her for pocket money to go out for fun, the day before a university examination) for the first situation. All the other situations concerned changes to healthier behaviour in a medical setting, but with a goal different from that used for the first or the second simulated interview before motivationnal interviewing training."