title: Teaching communication skills to pre-clinical medical students: a general practice based approach.
abstract: This paper describes a method of teaching communication skills to pre-clinical medical students in the setting of general practice. By focusing on the nature of the patient's problem this teaching tries to place interviewing and diagnostic procedures in their proper context in the doctor-patient relationship.
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*