This book provides a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. They are an invaluable resource for practitioners, course organizers, facilitators and learners at all levels, from undergraduate to continuing medical education, and apply equally to specialist and family medicine. This book explores in detail the specific skills of doctor-patient communication and provides comprehensive evidence of the improvements that these skills can make to health outcomes and everyday clinical practice. It is unique in providing a secure platform of core skills which represent the foundations for doctor-patient communication in every circumstance. It examines how to use these skills in the medical interview, and is essential reading for learners, facilitators and programme directors. This book is unique in taking an evidence-based approach, helping users to fully understand the theoretical and research basis of the subject as well as how to use communication skills in the medical interview in clinical practice. This book concentrates on providing a secure platform of skills: in it the authors define a curriculum of core skills in doctor-patient communication, document how to use these skills in the medical consultation, and describe the theoretical and research evidence that substantiates their value in improving health outcomes in everyday clinical practice. It is essential reading for learners at all levels – whether medical students, residents, or established practitioners – and for facilitators and program directors.
Authors: Jonathan Silverman, Suzanne Kurtz & Juliet Draper
Publishers: Radcliffe Medical Press
Date of Publication: 1999
No. of pages: 173