Communication Skills

Communication Skills

Improving Pathologists' Communication Skills.

The 2015 Institute of Medicine report on diagnostic error has placed a national spotlight on the importance of improving communication among clinicians and between clinicians and patients [1]. The report emphasizes the critical role that communication plays in patient safety and outlines ways that pathologists can support this process. Despite recognition of communication as an essential elemen...

Communication Skills MCM301

Communication Communication is defined as a process by which we assign and convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding. This process requires a vast repertoire of skills in intrapersonal and interpersonal processing, listening, observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, and evaluating. Use of these processes is developmental and transfers to all areas of life: home, school, co...

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...

Organizational Communication Skills

The five concepts and theories that seem to have the most relevance to my current professional position as an English Language instructor and the head of an English Language and Education Department are: (1) diversity in the workplace and its effect on communication, (2) leadership, (3) management and administration, (4) decision making and (5) problem solving with a special focus on organizati...