Resumen de Melanoma Simulation Model: Promoting Opportunistic Screening and Patient Counseling

Namita Jain, Mark J. Anderson, Pooja Patel

• Importance Lack of training hampers melanoma recognition by physicians.

  Objective To evaluate a melanoma simulation model to teach visual assessment and counseling skills.

  Design and Setting Simulation model study in an academic research setting.

  Participants A convenience sample of third-year medical students was randomly assigned to receive the intervention before or after a standardized patient.

  Intervention During the primary care clerkship, medical students participated in melanoma skills training using 2 simulation models replicating melanomas and abnormal or benign nevi. Scoring threshold rules for visual assessment and management of pigmented lesions and videos of patient counseling were provided.