The Effect of a Structured, Home-based Interview With a Patient on First-year Medical Students' Patient-centredness.

"The intervention will be a structured in-depth interview with a patient with a chronic illness that has been chosen by the student's allocated GP teacher. These chronic diseases are the four conditions at the top of a list of diseases with high disability-adjusted life years (DALY) scores in Switzerland: ischaemic heart disease, low back pain, major depressive disorder and COPD.~GP teachers and students will be told that the students' intervention interviews need to be unaccompanied and at patients' own homes. The interview will be followed by a structured interview with the practice nurse and then a structured debriefing interview with the GP teacher."

In the sham comparator, the student's allocated GP teacher will be give the student time to read a document that gives information about consultation skills, and asks questions that the student will need to discuss with the GP teacher. The document is designed to have real educational value, and to complement BIHAM's department-based consultation skills teaching.