Communication Skills: Top Priority of Teaching Competency

Teaching communication skills.

Communication is the act of conveying a message to another person, and it is an essential skill for establishing physician-patient relationships and effective functioning among health care professionals. Participants in the Toronto Consensus meeting in the early 1990s concluded there was enough evidence to prove that doctor-patient communication problems are common and that they adversely affec...

Teaching interpersonal and communication skills.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education mandates that radiology residency programs provide instruction and assessment in six core competencies. Among these are professionalism, interpersonal and communication skills, and patient care. Although no one contests the importance of these competencies, many faculty members, program directors, and residents express uncertainty about h...

Communication skills teaching comes of age.

The doctor–patient relationship (a good bedside manner) has always been recognised as central to medicine. However, the systematic teaching of communication skills and assessment of students communicating with their patients is a relatively new element in medical education. It is only recently that we have moved from the belief that entrants to medical school, by virtue of their intelligence, a...

Interpersonal and Communication Skills Competency Assessment in ID programs

Teaching pediatric communication skills to medical students

BACKGROUND Delivering effective clinical pediatric communication skills training to undergraduate medical students is a distinct and important challenge. Pediatric-specific communication skills teaching is complex and under-researched. We report on the development of a scenario-based pediatric clinical communication skills program as well as students' assessment of this module. METHODS We des...