title: Professional language: understanding and being understood.
abstract: Language is a vital means of communication and education plays a key role in developing both our general language capabilities but also our use of 'Professional language'. Learning a professional language is like being inducted into the profession through the shared use of arcane and often obscure words and terminology. What makes sense to a 'Professional' could well be gobbledygook/meaningless/nonsense to anyone else. This CPD activity is designed to encourage us to think about how we speak and communicate. In a multicultural country, we have to be aware of both how we communicate and also how colleagues and patients are communicating.
authors: a Senior Lecturer Forensic Anthropology and Photography, Department of Forensic Science , College of Life and Natural Sciences, University of Derby , Derby , UK.
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authors: Bryson
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning; D011361:Professional Competence
keywords: CPD; Professional; communication; language