A fully updated and revised edition that reflects recent developments in
theoretical and conceptual approaches to communication in healthcare.This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second
Edition, provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in
medicine. Fully updated and revised, and greatly expanded, this new edition
examines how to construct a skills curricular at all levels of medical
education and across specialties, documents the individuals skills that form
the core content of communication skills teaching programmes, and explores in
depth the specific teaching, learning and assessment methods that are currently
used within medical education. Since their publication, the first edition of
this book and its companion Skills for Communicating with Patients, have become
standards texts in teaching communication skills throughout the world, 'the
first entirely evidence-based textbooks on medical interviewing. It is
essential reading for course organizers, those who teach or model communication
skills, and program administrators.
