title: Teaching skills in communication to medical students--a critical review of the methodology.
abstract: Over the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in papers concerned with training medical students in communication skills. In this paper, we consider what constitutes an adequate methodology for such research and whether recent papers meet this standard.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*