Communication Skills |
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These resources are free for
you all to use. They have been set up by East Anglia Communications
Skills Cascade facilitators to promote and support the teaching of communication
skills in health care. For general information please contact
Yomi McEwen
or see the Cascade website www.skillscascade.com
Next Cascade meeting: Please see the Diary above or
contact Yomi
McEwen
Our meeting of July 2003 was devoted to facilitation skills and thinking
about the second half of the consultation and the skills of shared
decision-making and partnership with patients. Download the notes
below

Useful
concepts in shared-decision making (23kb doc)
The
shared decision- making model (24 kb doc)
Communications Skills Teaching: A Four-day residential course for Course
Organisers, Directors & Undergraduate Teachers (26kB rtf)
13 - 17 June 2005 Madingley Hall, Cambridge
Dr. Juliet Draper & Dr. Jonathan Silverman
For enquiries about the Madingley Hall Workshop email Julie
Draper
Communication
Skills Manual - February - July 2003 (1.5MB pdf)
This is Andrew Chafer's excellent communication skills teaching module
for GP Registrars which he has now trialed over several years on
the Luton and Dunstable VTS.
Do look at it and see if it would be helpful for your teaching.
Calgary-Cambridge Guide to the Consultation
(Part
1 - The Framework)(856kB rtf)
(Part
2 - Skills) (73 kB rtf)
Here is the latest edition of the Calgary-Cambridge Guide to the Consultation,
which has been redesigned so that it covers all aspects of the medical
interview, and is also particularly appropriate for medical student
teaching, as it includes content such as relevant background information
as well as how to record information in the records. A paper
on the new guide is to be published in Academic Medicine in August
2003.
Any teaching session can be
built on the principles below...
Framework
for designing communication skills session (15kB rtf)
A
guide to purchasing video equipment (58kB pdf)
Dr. Juliet Draper, Communication Skills Teaching Facilitator
Suggested
Communication Skills Curriculum for the VTS (22kB rtf)
Consulting
with Difficult Patients(9kB rtf)
Compiled from work done at the course for experienced trainers, Homerton
2002
Models
of the Consultation (46kB rtf)
A Summary of models that have been proposed over the last twenty years
- Dr. Juliet Draper
Videoing
the Consultation (5kB rtf)
"Early" practice visits and how to encourage trainer and registrar
to video consultations in the first few weeks...
Mind
Map - The Heartsink Patient (52kB rtf)
Compiled from work done at the course for experienced trainers, Homerton
2002
A
Guide to the Consultation Skills training video (56kB)
Mei Ling Denney and Julie
Draper have a teaching communication skills videotape which demonstrates
key skills in the consultation. All trainers and course organisers
will receive a copy shortly. Please download the copy above.
WONCA 2004
A
Plan for 1 to 1 teaching of consulting skills
The SET-GO method for giving feedback
Script of clinical scenario presented at WONCA 2004
If you have comments or queries about the content of this page please
contact Dr Yomi McEwen
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