The effect of undergraduate education in communication skills: A randomised controlled clinical trial

European Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 213-218

  Haak, Rainer ^a   Rosenbohm, Jakob ^a   Koerfer, Armin ^a   Obliers, Rainer ^a   Wicht, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Dental education; Dentist patient relations; Learning; Patient simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; DENTAL SURGERY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERIODONTICS; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROLE PLAYING; TEACHING; VIDEORECORDING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; DENTISTRY, OPERATIVE; EDUCATION, DENTAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PERIODONTICS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; ROLE PLAYING; STUDENTS, DENTAL; TEACHING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 61449282533     PISSN: 13965883     EISSN: 16000579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2008.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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