This paper offers the non-subject specialist an overview of the literature which has influenced the development of listening and interpersonal skills in UK higher education. It refers to articles, seminal texts and writers within the field. In order to provide some context, the first section of the review covers some issues relating to the definition of listening and interpersonal skills and so...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education mandates that radiology residency programs provide instruction and assessment in six core competencies. Among these are professionalism, interpersonal and communication skills, and patient care. Although no one contests the importance of these competencies, many faculty members, program directors, and residents express uncertainty about h...

Communication skills are important to overall wellbeing, for creating positive interpersonal atmosphere and for solving interpersonal problems. Many patients suffering with various psychiatric disorders suffer from either a state-dependent decrease of social skills or lifelong deficits of such skills. Patients with social skills deficits such as problems with communication with others people, s...

This study examined social problem-solving performance in high-functioning schizophrenia (n=26) and its relation to neurocognition. Ten healthy controls were used as a comparison group. Social problem-solving was assessed with the Assessment of Interpersonal Problem Solving Skills (AIPSS) method. The schizophrenia group was outperformed by healthy controls on all AIPSS measures, reaching statis...

CONTEXT Today's formal medical school admission systems often include only cognitively oriented tests, although most medical school curricula emphasise both cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Situational judgement tests (SJTs) may represent an innovative approach to the formal measurement of interpersonal skills in large groups of candidates in medical school admission processes. This study e...