IsiZulu task-based syllabus for medical students: Grading and sequencing doctor-patient communication tasks

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-159
Author(s):  
Roshni Gokool ◽  
Marianna Visser
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Patient Communication ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication

scholarly journals Effectiveness of clinical scenario dramas to teach doctor-patient relationship and communication skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinan Jiang ◽  
Lili Shi ◽  
Jinya Cao ◽  
Liming Zhu ◽  
Yue Sha ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Patient Communication ◽  
Clinical Scenario ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Doctor Patient Relationship ◽  
Clinical Communication ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Chinese Medical Students

Abstract Background The doctor-patient relationship in China has deteriorated in recent years, and poor doctor-patient communication is one of the main reasons. How to effectively carry out doctor-patient communication training originated from the West among Chinese medical students still to be studied. In the past decade, Peking Union Medical College has adopted clinical scenario drama to teach doctor-patient relationship and clinical communication skills. The aim of this study was to introduce clinical scenario dramas and evaluate its effectiveness in promoting doctor-patient relationships and clinical communication skills through students’ self-perceptions in Chinese medical students. Methods This study was a retrospective, self-controlled study and conducted from March 2009 to October 2018. Doctor-patient relationship and communication skills training were administered to all sixth-year medical students, which involved lectures and various clinical scenario dramas. The program totaled 24 h, of which each class session was 3 h, with 8 sessions in total. All students were requested to complete an anonymous 5 likert self-rating survey including self-confidence in using communication skills and self-perceived learning attitude and ability before and at the end of the course. In addition, they were requested to evaluate the curriculum after completion of the course. Results Clinical scenario dramas helped students improve their self-confidence in clinical communication skills except for psychosomatic history taking (p < 0.05). The interests for participation in clinical scenario dramas were higher compared to attending lectures (4.39 ± 0.610 Vs 4.07 ± 0.831, p<0.01). Study participants were highly satisfied in the course setting, teaching instructors and content (4.61 ± 0.546, 4.65 ± 0.535, 4.63 ± 0.534). The self-evaluation results demonstrated that clinical scenario dramas improved the learning ability of medical students (p < 0.05). Conclusion The use of clinical scenario dramas was helpful in teaching doctor-patient communication skills.

The ‘narrative spirit’

2018 ◽  
pp. 140-150
Author(s):  
Yeonok Jeoung ◽  
Gabriele Lucius-Hoene ◽  
Yong Ik Bak
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Patient Communication ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Training Courses

Recent studies in Korea show that doctors have suffered a severe loss of image among their patients, due to their authoritarian, unempathic, and unfriendly communication behaviour. These findings were confirmed by studies of their communication styles done with conversation analysis. Training courses for medical students in doctor–patient communication have become mandatory, but are short and to date have provided no significant change; the ethical foundations of doctors when dealing with patients remained untouched. This chapter explores how the humanistic concepts of narrative medicine and can provide better understanding between doctors and patients. This ‘narrative spirit’ resonates with traditional values of Buddhism and Confucianism that are deeply rooted in Korean culture. It discusses a training programme for doctors working with text analysis of narrative interviews of patients’ illness experiences and shows how using patients’ stories may evoke this ‘narrative spirit’ and combine traditional ethical values with modern medical education.

scholarly journals DIDACTIC ASSISTANCE FOR OPTIMIZING DOCTOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Nastasiu ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
Patient Communication ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication

The Methodological Guide to the Discipline Romanian as a foreign language for medical students Didactic assistance for optimizing doctor-patient communication is structured in 3 chapters: the first chapter includes conceptual milestones of competency-based education, data on the concept of competences and their role in modern education; the second chapter analyzes the concept of interpersonal communication versus linguistic competence including general considerations on the communication competence between linguistic knowledge and performance as an integral part of the competence formation process of doctor-patient interpersonal communication looked through the prism of medical terminology knowledge; the third chapter highlights pragmatic hypostases of formation/development of doctor-patient communication competence focused on Romanian medical language, as well, are presented practical reasonings for optimizing doctor-patient communication competence focused on specialized language and methodological recommendations for formation/development of doctor-patient communication competence within the Discipline Romanian as a foreign language for medical students. To attain the established objectives, the formation/development of doctor-patient interpersonal communication competence within the Discipline Romanian as a foreign language for medical students, we focused on the innovative teaching and creative learning of some curricular content and on contextualized use of a number of communication methods and techniques based on the development of critical and creative thinking such as: Ciorchinele; Mosaic; SINELG; Glottodrama, Cinquain, Project, etc. According to therapeutic and ethical perspectives, the modern doctor should be able to create and maintain correct relationship with patients, their relatives, as well as in relationship with colleagues and society, etc. The modern doctor is able to effectively use communication techniques, request and provide information, correctly apply active listening, explanation, silence, paraphrasing, empathy, acceptance, etc. Physicians should receive adequate training that meets the patients’ current needs and is based on their holistic approach.

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