Author's response to reviews Title: Observed Communication Skills: How Do They Relate To The Consultation Content? A nation-wide study of graduate medical students seeing a standardized patient for a first-time consultation in a general practice setting. Authors:

Observed communication skills: how do they relate to the consultation content? A nation-wide study of graduate medical students seeing a standardized patient for a first-time consultation in a general practice setting

BACKGROUND In this study, we wanted to investigate the relationship between background variables, communication skills, and the bio-psychosocial content of a medical consultation in a general practice setting with a standardized patient. METHODS Final-year medical school students (N = 111) carried out a consultation with an actor playing the role of a patient with a specific somatic complaint...

The Effect of Employing Standardized Patient on History Taking Skills of Medical Students

Introduction: Using Standardized Patient (SP) in teaching history taking provides medical students with an opportunity to learn how to communicate with patients. A Standardized Patient is a person who has been carefully coached to simulate an actual patient so accurately. This study was performed to assess the effect of using SP on improving history taking skill of third year medical students. ...

Author's response to reviews Title: Patient enablement requires physician empathy: a cross-sectional study of general practice consultations in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation in Scotland Authors:

Clinical Medical Teachers’ Competency of Active Listening in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Active listening to the patient not only is an essential key to take necessary information and achievement in medical consultation, but also shows respect to the patient. Considering teachers as the role models of future physicians, making sure about their qualifications and abilities in creating an effective therapeutic relationship seems to be necessary. Therefore, this study in...

What is the Clinical Skills Learning Center?

With shorter periods of hospitalazation, fewer patient beds and more health care facilities in the society, patients are now more acutely ill and highly dependent, causing less opportunities for medical students to practice and learn basic clinical skills. On the other hand, enhanced patient rights and other learnig limitations require that professional education provide not only knowledge and ...