Teaching communication skills to pre-clinical medical students: a general practice based approach.

D Armstrong, B H Hicks, P M Higgins, J A Weinman
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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 Term

Clinical Competence
Communication
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Family Practice
Humans
London
Physician-Patient Relations
Teaching

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