A Practical Guide to Communication Skills in Clinical Practice
- Steve Allen, Jr, Reviewer, MD
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State University of New York
Health Science Center at Syracuse
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- buckman r, korsch b, baile w: a practical guide to communication skills in clinical practice
- new media reviews (meyer hs, ed)
by Robert Buckman, Barbara Korsch, and Walter Baile, 4 CD-ROMs, requirements: Macintosh/PowerMac: System 7 or later, 16MB RAM, thousands of colors, 2× speed, 20 MB free disk space; Windows: Pentium, 100Mhz processor or higher with Windows 3.1, 95, NT or higher, 16 MB RAM, thousands of colors, Soundblaster comp sound card, 4× speed, 20 MB free disk space; documentation: 16 pp user's guide; $175, Medical Audio Visual Communications, 1998 (1-800-757-4868; http://www.mavc.com; dwc@mavc.com).
Many of us involved in skills training for health care professionals have long searched for the Communication Skills Holy Grail—an audiovisual supplement to hands-on training that promises to
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offer a sound rationale for the importance of communication skills in health care encounters;
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have a clear overall approach to learning these skills;
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be visually interesting;
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hold the attention of a diverse group of adult learners, each starting the process with sometimes wide variation in learning styles, innate …
