ABSTRACT

KEY This station assesses your ability to deliver difficult news to a patient, a very important skill as a doctor. The severity of the news you will be delivering may vary from informing a relative of the death of a patient to giving a patient a diagnosis of chronic disease. Below are some useful phrases for success in this station; the scenario above will be used to exemplify. Of course you should only use sentences/phrases that you are comfortable with, and you will discover these through practising scenarios.