Background Effective communication is an essential element of medical care and a priority
of medical education. Specific interventions to teach communication skills are at the …

Objective We describe a collaboration between the graduate medical education office and
the Henry Ford Health System's Office of Clinical Quality and Safety to create an institution …

Background and Objectives: This paper describes the content and methods used to teach
communication skills in Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) …

Background: Medical regulatory organizations worldwide require competency in
communication skills. Pediatric communication competencies are unique, and little is known …

Communicating with patients is arguably the most common and important activity in medical
practice, but this activity receives relatively little emphasis in graduate medical education …

Objective To determine current practices for communication skills curriculum and
assessment in pediatric residency programs and to identify programs' greatest needs …

Background: Physicians' communication skills, which are linked to important patient
outcomes, are rarely explicitly taught during the clinical years of medical school. This paper …

Background Communicating with patients has long been identified as an important
physician competency. More recently, there is a growing consensus regarding the …

Objective: To design a structured curriculum concerning issues of communication with
patients and families for use during training of pediatric residents. Background: The stimulus …

Background Delivering effective clinical pediatric communication skills training to
undergraduate medical students is a distinct and important challenge. Pediatric-specific …