Teaching patient communication skills to medical students: A review of randomized controlled trials

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-21

  Smith, Sherilyn ^a,h   Hanson, Janice L ^b   Tewksbury, Linda R ^c   Christy, Cynthia ^d   Talib, Nasreen J ^e   Harris, Mitchell A ^f   Beck, Gary L ^g   Wolf, Fredric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical student; Meta analysis; Patient communication skills; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING;

COMMUNICATION; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 33846689863     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278706297333     Document Type: Article

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