Purpose To provide guidance to oncology clinicians on how to use effective communication
to optimize the patient-clinician relationship, patient and clinician well-being, and family well …

Background This is the third update of a review that was originally published in the
Cochrane Library in 2002, Issue 2. People with cancer, their families and carers have a high …

Background Physician empathy is both theoretically and empirically critical to patient health,
but research indicates that empathy declines throughout medical school and is lower than …

Background Empathy is pivotal to effective clinical care. Yet, the art of nurturing and
assessing empathy in medical schools is rarely consistent and poorly studied. To inform …

Background Educational meetings are used widely by health personnel to provide
continuing medical education and to promote implementation of innovations or translate …

This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition,
provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated …

Background Communication problems in health care may arise as a result of healthcare
providers focusing on diseases and their management, rather than people, their lives and …

Background Mentoring's pivotal role in nurturing professional identity formation (PIF) owes
much to its combined use with supervision, coaching, tutoring, instruction, and teaching …

Background Few studies have assessed the efficacy of communication skills training for
postgraduate physician trainees at the level of behaviors. We designed a residential …

Objective To explore the barriers experienced and perceived by health professionals and
patients in the delivery of psychosocial care to adults with cancer. Methods Systematic …