TY - JOUR
T1 - Standardized Patient Training Programs
T2 - an Efficient Solution to the Call for Quality Improvement in Oncologist Communication Skills
AU - Ju, Melody
AU - Berman, Abigail T.
AU - Vapiwala, Neha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2015/9/13
Y1 - 2015/9/13
N2 - Several key medical and oncologic professional societies have endorsed the importance of physician communication as a quality improvement metric. Despite this clear message, there remain substantial barriers to communication skills training (CST) in oncologic specialties. Herein, we describe the major barriers to communications training and propose standardized patient (SP) programs as efficient and strategic starting points and as expansion opportunities for new and existing CSTs.
AB - Several key medical and oncologic professional societies have endorsed the importance of physician communication as a quality improvement metric. Despite this clear message, there remain substantial barriers to communication skills training (CST) in oncologic specialties. Herein, we describe the major barriers to communications training and propose standardized patient (SP) programs as efficient and strategic starting points and as expansion opportunities for new and existing CSTs.
KW - Communication skills training
KW - Patient-physician communication
KW - Quality improvement
KW - Standardized patients
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U2 - 10.1007/s13187-014-0715-x
DO - 10.1007/s13187-014-0715-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 25189796
SN - 0885-8195
VL - 30
SP - 466
EP - 470
JO - Journal of Cancer Education
JF - Journal of Cancer Education
IS - 3
ER -