Using role-play to teach consultation skills--the Singapore experience.

Role-play by students has been adopted as a teaching method for learning consultational skills during a primary health care posting for fourth year medical students in the National University of Singapore. This article describes the construction of the framework used, and reports on its evaluation by both the students and their teachers. The overall response to the session by the students was positive. Suggestions were then solicited to make refinements to enhance its efficacy as a teaching tool.