Don’t focus only on clinical skills, work also on your soft skills.

Don’t focus only on clinical skills, work also on your soft skills.

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Other practices (health education)

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Medical Education

A patient-centered medicine needs residents not only trained on clinical skills. Residents need to be trained also in soft skills such as communication, relationship and problem solving. Focused training on patients-centered communication and evaluation of the language used should be implemented. A special focus should be given to gender, culture and religion differences in communication.

Sources

1. Lee GB, Chiu AM. Assessment and feedback methods in competency-based medical education. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2022;128: 256-62. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2021.12.010.
2. Jani H, Narmawala W, Ganjawale J. Evaluation of Competencies Related to Personal Attributes of Resident Doctors by 360 Degree. J Clin Diagn Res 2017;11:JC09-JC11. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2017/25907.
3. Wild D, Nawaz H, Ullah S, Via C, Vance W, Petraro P. Teaching residents to put patients first: creation and evaluation of a comprehensive curriculum in patient-centered communication. BMC Med Educ 2018;18: 266. doi: 10.1186/s12909-018-1371-3.

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