Benefits of Teaching Medical Students How to Communicate with Patients Having Serious Illness

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 261-270

  Ellman, Matthew S ^a   Fortin, Auguste H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicating bad news; Communication skills; End of life care; End of life discussions; Medical student education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPREHENSION; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SELF CARE; SKILL RETENTION; STUDENT ATTITUDE; STUDENT RETENTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL LEARNING; TERMINAL CARE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 84863429959     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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