ArticleCanadian medical education journal2012
A Comparison Study of Communication Skills Between General Surgery and General Practice Residents on First-time Patient Visits.
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- Communication Skills (CS) training of physicians in China and its role in actual challenges of patient-physician relationship: a cross-sectional survey.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Barriers to nurse-patient communication in primary healthcare centers in Bahrain: Patient perspective.International journal of nursing sciences · 2022Article
- Examining doctor-patient communication skills among senior medical students based on calgary cambridge observation guide.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is little published research about differences in doctor-patient communication of different specialties. Accordingly, we compared doctor-patient communication skills in two different specialties, general surgery (GS) and general practice (GP).
methodsTwenty residents from the Bahrain Defence Force Hospital (10 men and 10 women; mean age 28 years; 10 GS and 10 GP) participated in 200 patient first visit consultations. The consultations were video-recorded and analysed by four trained observers using the MAAS Global scale.
results1) Internal consistency reliability of the MAAS Global (> 0.91) and Ep(2) = 0.84 for raters was high, 2) GP residents spent more time (12 minutes) than GS residents (7 minutes), in the visits, 3) There were several differences on the MAAS Global items between GP and GS residents (GS > GP, p < 0.05 on history taking, diagnosis and medical aspects; GP > GS, p < 0.05 on information giving), and 4) The present participants performed well compared to normative samples as well as to criterion-referenced cut-off scores. The general level of communication skills in both specialties, however, was 'unsatisfactory' and 'doubtful', as it is for normative samples.
conclusionExcellent doctor-patient communication is essential but does not appear to receive the amount of attention that it deserves in practice settings. There are some differences between specialties as well as unsatisfactory communication skills for both specialties, since residents from both programs spent less time than recommended on each consultation. Our findings emphasize the need to improve the communication skills of physicians and surgeons in general.
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