Assessing Physician’s Motivational Communication Skills: 5-Step Mixed Methods Development Study of the Motivational Communication Competency Assessment Test

Vincent Gosselin Boucher   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Simon Bacon   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Brigitte Voisard   ^{1, 2} , BA ;   Anda I Dragomir   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Claudia Gemme   ^{1, 2} , BA ;   Florent Larue   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Sara Labbé   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Geneviève Szczepanik   ¹ , PhD ;   Kimberly Corace   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Tavis Campbell   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Michael Vallis   ⁹ , PhD ;   Gary Garber   ^{10, 11} , MD ;   Codie Rouleau   ⁵ , PhD ;   Jean G Diodati   ¹ , MD ;   Doreen Rabi   ¹² , MD, PhD ;   Serge Sultan   ¹³ , PhD ;   Kim Lavoie   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Network For Health Behavior Change And Promotion (CAN-Change)   ¹⁴

¹ Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l’Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada

² Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

³ Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁴ Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁶ The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁷ Total Cardiology Cardiac Rehabilitation, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁸ Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁹ Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹¹ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹² Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹⁴ Canadian Network for Health Behavior Change and Promotion (CAN-Change), Montreal, QC, Canada