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Teaching Dental Students How to Deliver Bad News: S‐P‐I‐K‐E‐S Model
Author(s) -
Curtin Sharon,
McConnell Mary
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2012.76.3.tb05267.x
Subject(s) - dental education , psychology , medicine , medical education
Delivering bad news has traditionally been associated with life‐threatening illness, the imminence of death, or communicating about the death of a loved one to a family member. The delivery of bad news in dentistry is rarely about life‐threatening circumstances. However, the impact of the bad news such as the loss of an anterior tooth can be devastating for the patient. This article outlines the S‐P‐I‐K‐E‐S protocol and discusses the teaching aims and methodology in applying the model in an undergraduate dental program in Ireland.