Product Description

Highly Commended (Basis of Medicine category), BMA Awards 2005
A highly practical account of communication for medical students, backed up with numerous case histories. In addition to the clinical interview the book covers other aspects of communication including how to promote healthy behaviour and the need for the doctor to work as part of the health care team.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #366596 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Handy communication skills text!
This book emphasises the importance of communication skills and uses the "life-long" learning approach. The content is good, covering a large range of doctor/patient scenarios in which to improve or adapt our communication - increasingly stressed in today's curricla ...It is an interactive book with questions, set tasks and feedback sections and summaries of key facts. Definitely worth a look!

Some very basic but useful infomation
I am doing a degree in Occupational Therapy and bought this book as it was on the reading list. It has an interactive style where the reader is encouraged to stop and think about her own experiences. However, as a mature student I did find that some of the information it gave was very much a matter of common sense. Also, I felt that it was very much geared toward medics and sections of the book weren't particulary useful to me