Background and Objectives: Recent guidelines from the Association of American Medical Colleges and from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education strongly suggest that communications teaching and assessment be part of medical education at all levels. This study\u27s objective was to validate an instrument to assess communications skills. This instrument, Common Ground, is linked to the core, generic communication skills emphasized by the consensus statements of Toronto and Kalamazoo. Methods: A total of 100 medical students were recruited from two medical schools and tested with four-station, communications-focused objective structured clinical examinations. Using Common Ground, trained raters performed checklist and global r...
Purpose Clinical communication influences health outcomes, so medical schools are charged to prepar...
The teaching of clinical communication skills is gaining importance in medical schools. There is a n...
Rationale: There has been substantive debate in the medical education literature about which format ...
BACKGROUND:Teaching and assessment of communication skills have become essential in medical educatio...
Background: Good communication is a core competency for all physicians. Thus, medical students requi...
Background: Physicians' communication skills (CS) are known to significantly affect the quality of h...
OBJECTIVE: In recent decades, there has been increased interest in tools for assessing and improving...
Background: The assessment of communication competence has become a major priority of medical educat...
Introduction: Providing instructive feedback and measuring growing expertise in a task as complex as...
BACKGROUND: Good communication is a core competency for all physicians. Thus, medical students requ...
Background: Imparting communication skills has been given great importance in medical curricula. In ...
In recent decades, there has been increased interest in tools for assessing and improving the commun...
Objectives We reviewed papers describing the development of instruments for assessing clinical comm...
The World Federation of Medical Education encourages the teaching of generic skills including commun...
Communication skills (CS) are important skills that have a major impact in healthcare outcomes. The...
Purpose Clinical communication influences health outcomes, so medical schools are charged to prepar...
The teaching of clinical communication skills is gaining importance in medical schools. There is a n...
Rationale: There has been substantive debate in the medical education literature about which format ...
BACKGROUND:Teaching and assessment of communication skills have become essential in medical educatio...
Background: Good communication is a core competency for all physicians. Thus, medical students requi...
Background: Physicians' communication skills (CS) are known to significantly affect the quality of h...
OBJECTIVE: In recent decades, there has been increased interest in tools for assessing and improving...
Background: The assessment of communication competence has become a major priority of medical educat...
Introduction: Providing instructive feedback and measuring growing expertise in a task as complex as...
BACKGROUND: Good communication is a core competency for all physicians. Thus, medical students requ...
Background: Imparting communication skills has been given great importance in medical curricula. In ...
In recent decades, there has been increased interest in tools for assessing and improving the commun...
Objectives We reviewed papers describing the development of instruments for assessing clinical comm...
The World Federation of Medical Education encourages the teaching of generic skills including commun...
Communication skills (CS) are important skills that have a major impact in healthcare outcomes. The...
Purpose Clinical communication influences health outcomes, so medical schools are charged to prepar...
The teaching of clinical communication skills is gaining importance in medical schools. There is a n...
Rationale: There has been substantive debate in the medical education literature about which format ...