Author(s)

Yulin Wang ¹, Xian Zhang ¹, Juntao Zhang ¹, Mengru Zhao ¹, Xia Yang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650000, Yunnan, China

Corresponding Author

Xian Zhang

ABSTRACT

The undergraduate medical education stage serves as the starting point for cultivating the communication skills of rural order-oriented medical students, laying the foundation for communication skills training during the postgraduate education stage and for effective communication with patients, families, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals throughout their careers. Exploring how to improve the quality of doctor-patient communication education at the medical college stage and enhance the doctor-patient communication skills of rural order-oriented medical students at this stage has significant practical implications. A staged doctor-patient communication skills curriculum can significantly enhance the effectiveness of doctor-patient communication education for rural order-oriented medical students during their undergraduate medical education, promoting the development of communication skills and other comprehensive competencies. The staged curriculum model is an effective approach for cultivating doctor-patient communication skills among medical students in medical college education and provides a useful reference for communication skills training in postgraduate general practice education and continuing education.

KEYWORDS

Entrustable Professional Activities; Competency; Professional Postgraduates; Doctor-Patient Communication

CITE THIS PAPER

Yulin Wang, Xian Zhang, Juntao Zhang, Mengru Zhao, Xia Yang. Practice of Staged Training with Specific EPAS for Doctor-Patient Communication in the Integrated Pediatric Standardized Residency Training Model for Professional Postgraduates. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2026). Vol. 9, No. 3, 32-43. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2026.090305.

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