- Title
- Interactional skills training in undergraduate medical education: ten principles for guiding future research
- Creator
- Sanson-Fisher, Rob; Hobden, Breanne; Carey, Mariko; Mackenzie, Lisa; Hyde, Lisa; Shepherd, Jan
- Relation
- BMC Medical Education Vol. 19, no. 144
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1566-2
- Publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Background: High-quality healthcare requires practitioners who have technical competence and communication skills. Medical practitioners need interpersonal skills for gathering and transferring information to their patients, in addition to general consultation skills. Appropriate information gathering increases the likelihood of an accurate diagnosis. Transferring information should be performed in a way that promotes patient understanding and increases the probability of adherence to physician recommendations. This applies to: (i) primary prevention such as smoking cessation; (ii) secondary prevention including preparation for potentially threatening interventions; and (iii) tertiary care, including breaking bad news regarding treatment and prognosis. Discussion: This debate paper delineates factors associated with undergraduate medical communication skills training where robust research is needed. Ten key principles are presented and discussed, which are intended to guide future research in this field and ensure high quality studies with methodological rigour are conducted. Summary: The literature on communication skills training for medical school undergraduates continues to grow. A considerable portion of this output is represented by commentaries, descriptive studies or poorly designed interventions. As with any field of healthcare, quality research interventions are required to ensure practice is grounded in high-level evidence.
- Subject
- communication skills; evidence-based medicine; undergraduate; medical education research; best evidence medical education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1415443
- Identifier
- uon:36908
- Identifier
- ISSN:1472-6920
- Rights
- © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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