Teaching Preclinical Medical Students Lifestyle Counseling Skills for Patients’ Health Behavior Change

It is significant that our session impacted students' attitudes on the importance of lifestyle counseling. Based on the session evaluation, we are refining assignment instructions for clarity, providing more time for each role-play, and starting with a faculty role-play demonstration. Aggregate data over time will be more robust than our single cohort. Our evaluation was limited to self-reported attitudes and role-play transcript review, but future interventions could use thematic analysis of recorded role-plays or direct observation of patient simulations.