Full Description
Communication skills are the cornerstone of being a good doctor and there is a growing trend to incorporate these skills within the medical school curriculum.
Medical students are normally well-versed in the medical knowledge needed for their OSCEs but often struggle with the key communication techniques required. This book shows how better communication skills will lead to a better consultation. It combines a practical approach to communicating with the essential clinical knowledge needed to help students perfect their consultations.
It is written by medical students and junior doctors for medical students and junior doctors.
Communication Skills for OSCEs is the first medical OSCEs book to focus on the key communication skills the medical student needs.
Communication Skills for OSCEs prepares you for the examination setting but, in doing so, also provides the building blocks for good communication skills throughout your career.
Contents
Section 1: Introduction to communication skills
1. How to use this book and get the most out of role play
2. The importance of communication skills in healthcare
3. Application of the Calgary-Cambridge Model
4. General approach to information gathering
5. Information giving and shared decision making
Section 2: System-focused communication
6. Perfecting the systems review
7. Psychiatry
8. Neurology
9. Orthopaedics and rheumatology
10. Ophthalmology
11. Cardiovascular medicine
12. Respiratory medicine
13. Ears, nose and throat
14. Gastroenterology and hepatology
15. Nephrology and urology
16. Obstetrics and gynaecology
17. Dermatology
18. Endocrinology
Section 3: Special situations in communication
19. Older people's medicine
20. Paediatrics
21. Taking a drug history
22. The consultation through an interpreter
23. Safeguarding vulnerable adults and children
24. Breaking bad news
25. Communicating error and conflict resolution
26. Communicating risk
27. Consenting for a procedure
28. Talking to colleagues
