Stop the video and involve the observers: an inter-reflective method to stimulate doctors' learning about their own consultations with patients

Consultations between a simulated patient and four general practitioners were videotaped. A method to use the material for learning and discussion in small groups has been developed. To let the observers' own consultation style come to the fore the video is stopped at selected points and the observers are asked to write down what they would have said or done in that situation. Afterwards these written answers are read aloud as a starting point for discussion. This gives the observers the possibility of sharing their own professional way of thinking and acting in a safe atmosphere.