Every Patient Tells a Story: How to Heal Your Patients by Listening to Their Stories
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Release Date: 08/17/2019
Teaching Communication Skills
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Dennis Novack, MD, founder of DocCom.org, an online communication skills program for hospitals, residency programs and medical schools, discusses the influence of Dr. George Engel, research about the impact of good communication skills and best practices for teaching communication skills. This is the final episode of the podcast. Host Barbara Lewis can be reached at [email protected].
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How to Ensure Trainee Well-being
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, discusses how to mentor trainees to help them find their purpose and reconnect with their reason for entering the profession; the steps for integrating personal and professional life; the Japanese ikigai as a guide; traits of compulsivity and three questions at the end of the day to reconnect with purpose.
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Incorporating Relationship-Centered Communication Strategies into Clinical Skills Courses
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Rob Shochet, MD, discusses relationship centered communication strategy, three important skill sets, how to use the computer in the exam room and other communication techniques.
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How to Use Hypnosis to Improve Outcomes
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
John Christensen, PhD, describes the medical conditions where hypnosis is used and verbal techniques on how to use hypnosis by talking to patients to improve outcomes.
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The Ability to Find Joy in the Midst of Tragedy: An Afghan Surgeon’s Perspective
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Homa Dost, MD, a surgeon in Afghanistan discusses the challenges in finding joy in her work.
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Empathic Communication Strategies
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Elizabeth Morrison, LCSW, MAC, discusses the fascinating research on empathy's impact on health outcomes and three important techniques to convey empathy.
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Remediating Communication Skills in Medical Students
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Kathy Cole-Kelly, MS, MSSW, discusses how to identify medical students who need communication remediation and the specific steps she undertakes to ensure they pass Step 2 CS.
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Patient-Centered Interviewing to Uncover Mental Health Issues
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
In about a quarter of all patients seen in a year have in a mental health disorder of depression, substance use or anxiety. Unfortunately, clinicians aren't trained on what to do. Oftentimes, the physical symptoms signal an underlying mental issue. Listen to Bob Smith, MD, talk about the red flag complaints and how treating the mental disorder helps the physical ailment. His episode on patient-centered interviewing is one of the top three downloaded podcasts.
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Trust: Competence, Care, Consistency and Courage
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
David Pendleton, DPhil, discusses how to sustain trust, how to address a patient when trust is lost and what to do when is trust undermined.
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Soliciting Goals for Care: The Gateway to Shared Decision Making
Healthcare Communication: Effective Techniques for Clinicians
Howard Beckman, MD, discusses why every clinician needs to know the patients' goals, how articulating goals improves outcomes and helps the clinicians and what the research reflects; he encourages people to continue his innovative research.
info_outlineLisa Sanders, MD, is author of the popular Diagnosis column for the New York Times Magazine, which inspired the Fox TV program, House M.D. Her previous NYT column, Think Like a Doctor, was the inspiration for a seven-hour documentary series about the process of diagnosis, which is airing on Netflix in August 2019. In 2010 she published the book, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis. Her most recent book is titled, Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries. The fascinating podcast conversation is about how to organize the patient encounter, techniques for showing the patient that you're interested in their story, use of video tape with residents and coaching residents.