IJME - Attitudes of medical students towards communication skills and patient-centered care: the impact of group mentorship

Table 5. Items in the Communication Skills Attitude Scale on which NC- and OC-students scored significantly differently

No.	Item	NC students	OC students	U	Z	Effect size (r)	p-value*
No.	Item	Median	Median	U	Z	Effect size (r)	p-value*
5	Learning communication skills has helped or will help me respect patients	4	4	1032	-2.51	0.25	.012
6	I haven't got time to learn communication skills	1	2	848	3.99	0.40	< .001
7	Learning communication skills is interesting	4	4	1101	-2.07	0.20	.039
11	Communication skills teaching states the obvious and then complicates it	3	3	1097.5	2.13	0.21	.033
18	I think it's really useful learning communication skills in medical school	4	4	1055.5	-2.39	0.24	.017

*p<0.05, Mann-Whitney U-test

Int J Med Educ. 2025; 16:52-61; doi: 10.5116/ijme.679e.091b