Open AccessImpact of focused training on communication skills of final-year medical students in a medical school in India
Author(s) -
Nayyar Iqbal,
Sudhagar Mookkappan,
Aneesh Basheer,
K. Ravichandran
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the australasian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1836-1935
DOI - 10.4066/amj.2015.2509
Subject(s) - curriculum , test (biology) , objective structured clinical examination , medical education , communication skills , wilcoxon signed rank test , medicine , family medicine , psychology , pedagogy , paleontology , biology
Although communication skills are important for a good physician-patient relationship, Indian medical curricula give very little emphasis on training medical students in this aspect.