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Background: While the field of speech-language pathology and medical education both provide training to improve the abilities of their students to communicate with patients, these fields rarely interact or collaborate with one another to maximise the effectiveness of this training. With a recent emphasis on the communication needs of patients with aphasia and other communication disorders in healthcare, and barriers these patients often face in accessing healthcare services, it has become increasingly important to review current research regarding patient–provider communication training, as well as what speech-language pathology and medical education can learn from one another in this area.

Aims: The purpose of this literature review was (1) to examine the impact of communication disorders on patient–provider communication, (2) to identify gaps in current patient–provider communication training in medical …