Clinical and communication skills II (cont.)
Dr M Kidd (Community Medicine)
This subject will continue the introduction of the students to basic communication skills, medical history taking and conducting a physical examination as begun in second year. In addition students will learn how to conduct a mental-state examination and will receive training in more advanced communication skills issues. Students will receive patient-based teaching of history taking and physical examination skills in a hospital setting. Communication skills teaching will include videotaping of student consultations with simulated patients and exercises in multicultural communication. Clinical contact visits will look at communication skills used in diagnosis and patient management, as well as teaching on communicating with the intellectually disabled and the elderly. Tutorials will be held on mental-state examination as well as patient-based training in communication skills required for dealing with emotionally, behaviourally and cognitively disturbed patients and their families.
Assessment
Examination (first semester) oral: 40% * Tutor assessment (first semester): 5% * Family case study report: 10% * Tutorials (bedside teaching): 15% * Examination (mental state) 2 hours: 15% * Tutorials (second semester): 15%
Recommended texts
Bloch S and Singh B The foundations of clinical psychiatry MUP, 1993
Talley N and O'Connor S Clinical examination: A guide to physical diagnosis 2nd edn, MacLennon and Petty, 1992