Featured Topic Article Invite, Listen, and Summarize: A Patient- Centered Communication Technique

The need for physicians to have patient-centered communication skills is re-flected in the educational objectives of numerous medical schools ’ curricula and in the competencies required by groups such as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. An innova-tive method for teaching communica-tions skills has been developed at the University of Colorado School of Medi-cine as part of its three-year, longitudinal course focusing on basic clinical skills required of all physicians. The method emphasizes techniques of open-ende