Patient-centered communication in digital medical encounters

The Association between Patient-centered Hidden Curriculum and Medical Students’ Communication Skills

Introduction: Nowadays, physicians, medical organizations, and policy makers increasingly emphasize patient centered medical care. Regarding the importance of hidden curriculum in development of medical students’ professional behaviors, this study was conducted to investigate correlation between patient-centered hidden curriculum and medical students’ communication skills. Methods: This descri...

Patient-Centered Communication

As the population ages, morbidity and mortality associated with chronic disease will increase. Some patient-centered improvements have been made in health care services, but optimal health has not been fully realized. Only when pharmacists have a holistic understanding of an individual patient, including their experience of illness and medication, can they effectively assess appropriateness, sa...

Patient-Centered Medical Home

The Patient - Centered Medical Home

1. Classify medication use and safety issues within primary care. 2. Explore how pharmacists engage with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models. 3. Demonstrate the compatibilities between pharmacist-provided medication management services and PCMH principles. 4. Justify the integration of a pharmacist-led medication therapy management (MTM) program within a PCMH model. 5. Analyze advantage...

Translating medical documents improves students’ communication skills in simulated physician-patient encounters

BACKGROUND Patient-physician communication should be based on plain and simple language. Despite communication skill trainings in undergraduate medical curricula medical students and physicians are often still not aware of using medical jargon when communicating with patients. The aim of this study was to compare linguistic communication skills of undergraduate medical students who voluntarily ...