Brush up your communication skills
Introduction
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This study guide for F1 doctors is designed to help you brush up your consultation skills.
Work through the pages then test your knowledge with the on-line quiz.
F1 doctors at the RUH, Bath, who are doing this study guide because they missed a lunch-time workshop can submit their Test yourself answers on-line. Satisfactory answers will count as an attendance on the course.
How important are communication skills?
Some evidence for importance of communication skills
What doctors want to get out of their consultations
What patients want to get out of their consultations
Doctor- and patient-centeredness
Patients' ideas, concerns and expectations
How to elicit a patient's ideas, concerns and expectations
Examples of possible ideas, concerns and expectations
Top tips from our GP Registrars
Next page: How important are communication skills?
Study guide by: Michael Harris.
Last updated: 12 August 2007