“Should I prioritize medical problem solving or attentive listening?”: The dilemmas and challenges that medical students experience when learning to conduct consultations

Communication skills can be trained alongside clinical reasoning, history taking or clinical examination skills. This is advocated as a solution to the low transfer of communication skills. Still, students have to integrate the knowledge/skills acquired during different curriculum parts in patient consultations at some point. How do medical students experience these integrated consultations within a simulated environment and in real practice when dealing with responsibility?

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - October 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Leen Aper, Wemke Veldhuijzen, Tim Dornan, Monica van de Ridder, Sebastiaan Koole, Anselme Derese, Jan Reniers Tags: Medical Education Source Type: research