Background Communication is a common element in all medical consultations, affecting a
range of outcomes for doctors and patients. The increasing demand for medical students to …

Introduction Ensuring medical students are equipped with essential knowledge and portable
skills to face complex ethical issues underlines the need for ethics education in medical …

Abstract Background Simulated patients (SPs) are widely used, but the most effective way of
utilising them in undergraduate breaking bad news (BBN) medical education is unknown …

Objective: Patient safety is a worldwide problem and a focus of academic research. Human
factors and ergonomics (HFE) is an approach to improving healthcare work systems and …

Abstract Background Simulated Patients (SPs) are commonplace in the teaching of
communication skills in medical education and can provide immediate feedback to students …

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Covid-19 continues to spread around the world and disrupt lives, universities around the …

Communication skills are paramount in all areas of medicine but particularly in psychiatry
due to the challenges posed by mental health patients and the essential role of …

Purpose Standardized patient (SP) encounters are widely used in health professional
education to evaluate trainees' clinical skills. Prior literature suggests that bias can influence …

Background Providing feedback is a key aspect of simulated participants'(SPs) educational
work. In teaching contexts, the ability to provide feedback to learners is central to their role …

Modern communication between health care professionals and patients increasingly relies
upon secure messages (SMs) exchanged through an electronic patient portal. Despite the …