The advancement of communication skills and bedside manner training for medical students is crucial to modern medical curricula. In this study, we compared the curricula of two central European universities, the Medical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Basel. A systematic search of literature was performed identifying nine publications. These sources were used to identify majo...

OBJECTIVE To explore and gain an understanding of what "clinical communication skills" mean to veterinarians working in private practice and what implications this might have for veterinary medical education. METHODS Qualitative research methods were used to purposefully sample a range of veterinary practitioners from a pool of South Australian veterinary practices who were interviewed to det...

February 1999, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) formulated six core competencies that a new practitioner should possess, but left it to the residency and fellowship programs to define the necessary skills and implement a process of teaching, assessment, and process improvement (1). Programs were mandated to create a process using results of assessments to achieve ...

BACKGROUND There is a relative lack of current research on the effects of specific communication training offered at the beginning of the medical degree program. The newly developed communication training "Basics and Practice in Communication Skills" was pilot tested in 2008 and expanded in the following year at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. The goal was to promote...

background: chronic mental illnesses affect cognitive status and behavior, which lead to social and communication impairment and behavioral problems. this research investigated the influence of communication skills training on aggression and quality of life of the patients with chronic mental illnesses. methods: this study is a quasi-experimental study with pretest and posttest. first, a total ...

AIMS To assess the quality of communication generally two procedures are used: one defines categories of utterances and counts their frequency, the other uses global observer ratings. We investigated whether a sequence analysis of utterances yields results which more precisely reflect the process of a conversation. METHODS We re-examined data from a randomised controlled intervention study in...

BACKGROUND This exploratory study investigated the motives of medical students (N = 63) for using indirect questions of the type I don't know if [you have already heard about chemotherapies], I don't know how [you are], or I don't know what [you do for a living] in simulated patient interviews during a communication skills course. METHODS I don't know questions (IDK-Qs) were observed during t...

PROBLEM Constraints on time and resources prevented first- and second-year medical students from having sufficient time to complete required tasks in standardized patient (SP) communication skills training sessions, and to appreciate the SP character as a "person." Case believability was limited by having each individual SP portray multiple patients in different encounters. APPROACH In 2010, ...

BACKGROUND Physician-patient communication skills help determine the nature and quality of diagnostic information elicited from patients, the quality of the physician's counseling, and the patient's adherence to treatment. In spite of their importance, surveys have demonstrated a wide variability and deficiencies in the teaching of these skills. AIM Describe two specific methodologies for tea...