Background: Assessment of physicians’ communication skills with patients is essential to ensure effective treatment. Achieving such a goal requires the use of a valid, native, and culturally-based tool. This study aimed to design a physician-patient communication skills assessment tool and evaluate its validity and reliability among the medical students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences,...

Background: Appropriate relationship between physician and patient can increase patients' trust and prevent from their confusion and repeated visits to different doctors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the dominant pattern of physician-patient relationship among outpatients referring to Shahid Sadoughi Hospital. Methods: This research was an analytical and correlationa...

Medicine is known as a combination of science and art. Besides knowledge, a good physician should be equipped with the art of establishing communication with patients. The keystone of any efficient relationship like a therapeutic one is trust, and its deterioration makes the relationship deficient and based on mere need. Therefore, establishing an efficient relationship brings about positive re...

Delivering information to the patient is one of the most significant of a physician’s commitments. The physician should inform the patient about his or her diagnosis about the disease, nature and scope of medical practices, consequences and possible risks and something like these. The physician should also help the patient access correct and sufficient information in this regard so that s...