The Easy Guide to OSCEs for Communication Skills

Muhammed Akunjee, Nazmul Akunjee, Shoaib Siddiqui, Ali Sameer Mallick

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846197161
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Internal Medicine & Diagnosis

It is increasingly recognised that communication plays a pivotal role in obtaining successful clinical outcomes. However, despite an increase in communication skills teaching, much of literature on this topic is targeted at senior doctors and researchers, and many medical students still find demonstrating competence in communication skills OSCEs a challenge. This book lightens the load by simplifying communication skills, explaining key theories and concepts simply and illustrating them through practical role plays. It covers a wide variety of common dilemmas in clinical and examination settings, and tackles challenging and increasingly familiar areas such as cross-cultural sensitivities, communicating with a patients whose first language is not English, and communicating with patients who have complaints about their treatment.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• About the authors
• 1 Introduction and basic consultation skills
• 2 Breaking bad news
• 3 Cross-cultural communication
• 4 Communicating with an angry patient
• 5 Explaining medical conditions
• 6 Explaining medical procedures
• 7 Intra-professional communication
• 8 Inter-professional communication
• 9 Apologising for mistakes
• 10 Dealing with complaints
• 11 English as a foreign language
• 12 Prejudices and discrimination
• Index