ABSTRACT

This is a practical and comprehensive guide to communication in family medicine for doctors nurses and staff in the primary healthcare team. It brings together all facets of communication in healthcare including involvement of patients staff and external workers. It shows how to address all aspects of communication in relation to one-to-one situations teaching and groups and encourages the reader to reflect on their own clinical and work experience. Using think boxes exercises and references this is an accessible guide relevant to all members of the practice team.

chapter 1|11 pages

Medical Education as a Rite of Passage

chapter 2|22 pages

Functions of Writing for Medical Students

chapter 3|14 pages

Why Study Medicai Student Poetry?

chapter 4|27 pages

Living Anatomy

The Experience of Cadaver Dissection

chapter 6|13 pages

It’s Not Only What’s In Your Brain, It’s What’s In Your Heart

Becoming a Physician - Part 2

chapter 8|21 pages

A Friendly Touch Would Have Done So Much

The Doctor-Patient Relationship

chapter 11|24 pages

Tickling the Conscience

The Intersection of Medicine and Social Justice

chapter 12|20 pages

I am Afraid as I Ponder That Inevitable End

Death and Dying

chapter 14|10 pages

Strangers in a Strange Land

What Matters to Medicai Students on Their Journey and How They Teii About It