background and purpose: clinical competence has four essential components: knowledge , physical exam , problem solving and communication skill .the communication skill isn’t an optional extra in medical training but it is a core clinical skill. this study is performed in order to determine whether communication skill training for internal medicine and infectious disease residents improves their...

introduction: establishment of effective communication between the clinician and patient is essential in order to increase the effectiveness of treatment. these skills have been less investigated among dental students. this study aimed to evaluate communication skills of dental students in shiraz with patients through direct observation, patients’ perspectives and students’ self-assessments. me...

Medical curriculum revisions all over the world in the last 20 years have increased the number of teaching hours in communication skills. This article describes a concrete communication skills teaching programme focused on general practice. Since the spring of 1992, more than 2,000 physicians from Denmark, Sweden and Finland have attended courses within this programme in Kalymnos, Greece. The t...

Background: Communication skill is considered as one of the main features of employees in the health centers. The midwives should make an influential connection with their patients in order to realize the purposes of health. Electronic training is a new method that is accessible and flexible for learning. The present study aimed to determine the impact of electronic training on communication sk...

the existence of an organization depends on communications and this is an area that managers spend most of their time on. therefore, recognition of communication skills accompanied with its implementation is among the essential parameters of successful management in any organization. in this study we decided to determine the relationship between managers' communication skills and health of orga...

objective: since fosters adolescents are deprived of family environment and probably the friendly relationships, some of them may develop problems in achieving self-awareness and communication skills and adjusting to the environmental conditions. thus, this study was conducted to assess the effect of self-awareness and communication skills training on increasing the level of adjustment in foste...

Background & aim: Empathy is an important component of establishing effective communication and achieving optimal clinical results. Establishing empathic communication with pregnant women improves satisfaction, mutual trust, participation in treatment, control over delivery process, and maternal health. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of empathy training on empathic skills...

objective: this study aimed to examine the effect of self-disclosure skill training on communication patterns of referred couples to counseling clinics in bandar abbas. methods: the applied research design was an experimental study using pre-test and post-test, which was performed on a population of all referred couples to counseling clinics in bandar abbas who were interested to participate in...