Teaching Communication Skills on the Surgery Clerkship.

CONCLUSIONS: Communication skills teaching can be implemented in the surgery clerkship, and surgeons are particularly well suited to teach about patient education, discussing informed consent and shared decision making, and delivering bad news. Structured case-based sessions are acceptable to, and improve the self-assessed skills of, surgery clerkship students. Faculty development geared toward such sessions has added benefits to educational activities in a clinical department overall. PMID: 28253136 [PubMed]
Source: Medical Education Online - Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Med Educ Online Source Type: research