Learning to talk with patients.
This paper gives an overview of the issues involved when doctors and patients communicate and some of the training approaches developed by medical educators. Doctors are under pressure to improve their relationships with patients. Effective training in communication skills exists but is only erratically implemented in medical schools. What is required above all is recognition of its central importance in medical education at all levels.
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St George's Hospital, London.
D003142:Communication; D004501:Education, Medical; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*