This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients,
Second Edition, provide a comprehensive approach to improving
communication in medicine. Fully updated and revised, and greatly
expanded, this new edition examines how to construct a skills curricular
at all levels of medical education and across specialties, documents the
individuals skills that form the core content of communication skills
teaching programmes, and explores in depth the specific teaching,
learning and assessment methods that are currently used within medical
education. Since their publication, the first edition of this book and
its companionSkills for Communicating with Patients, have become
standards texts in teaching communication skills throughout the world,
'the first entirely evidence-based textbooks on medical interviewing. It
is essential reading for course organizers, those who teach or model
communication skills, and program administrators.