Communication skills: Key to understanding

Carolyn Pitceathly them Key communication skills and how to acquire

Teaching communication skills and medical ethics to undergraduate medical student

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to improve communication skills and knowledge of bioethics of last year medical students doing clerkship and to evaluate the effectiveness of using workshops for this purpose from students’ point of view, in order to continue such programs in future. Methods: After Ethical approval for the study a two-day workshop on teaching effective communication s...

Communication is key: an examination of the development of communication key skills in vocational education in China

Crucial to learning from the past and anticipating the future is how we communicate. What stories that we have been told? What lessons have we learned and shared? In vocational education, communication has sometimes seemed marginalised, ostensibly labelled a ‘key’ or ‘core’ skill, it has formed part of a set of skills to be learned alongside or integrated within a wider skill set. In the last t...

Communication Skills

Communication skills: why not turn to a skills training model?

The standards for professional education found in the t.ssemials and CUidelinesfor an Accrediled Educational Program for Ihe Occupational Therapisl (American Occupational Therapy Association [AOTA]. 1991) constitute an outline of the substantive learning thaI pracritioners consider important (the essentials) as well as suggested methods for fostering that learning (the gUidelines). One of the e...