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Who should teach medical student in communication skills: Experts in communication, psychiatrists, or someone else?

Background: Teaching communication skills is an important part of medical school curricula. However, a question remains: who (professional profile) is responsible to teach medical students how to communicate? According to internationally presented experience, the answer is controversial. Two years ago, at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine, we introduced a longitudinal 6 years course in communication skills. The key question was who should be the teachers. Summary of work: We present the original model of training teachers (regular staff from clinical, public health and primary health care fields) in communication skills and sharing experience in its implementation and evaluation. Forty younger teachers with various educational backgrounds are trained for teaching. Besides their personal and professional characteristics, the training programme, learning outcomes, materials and process evaluation results are presented.

medical students; training in communication skills; Croatia

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