Introduction to Medical Communication

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2023-2024

Topic

The basics of doctor-patient encounter. Verbal and non-verbal communication. Ethical issues. How to make an interview. Communication skills training. Practice.

Lectures

• 1. Introduction to Physician-Patient Communication. Dr. Kürthy Dániel - Dr. Csikós Ágnes Erika
• 2. Verbal Communication - Dr. Heim Szilvia Mária
• 3. Non-verbal Communication - Dr. Heim Szilvia Mária
• 4. Interviewing patients - Dr. Csikós Ágnes Erika
• 5. Difficult situations in Communication - Dr. Bellyeiné Dr. Pozsgai Éva
• 6. Breaking Bad News - Dr. Csikós Ágnes Erika

Practices

• 1. Practice PART 1. • 1x4 hours training • Personal attendance required
• 2. Practice PART 1. • 1x4 hours training • Personal attendance required
• 3. Practice PART 1. • 1x4 hours training • Personal attendance required
• 4. Practice PART 1. • 1x4 hours training • Personal attendance required
• 5. Practice PART 2. • Home assignment has to be prepared at home • Essay writing OR role play presentation as described below A. Please give an example from your own life or environment about a medical communication situation which you were dissatisfied with or consider an example to follow! OR B. Group work through Teams and role-play in communicating bad news topic
• 6. Practice PART 2. • Home assignment has to be prepared at home • Essay writing OR role play presentation as described below A. Please give an example from your own life or environment about a medical communication situation which you were dissatisfied with or consider an example to follow! OR B. Group work through Teams and role-play in communicating bad news topic
• 7. Practice PART 2. • Home assignment has to be prepared at home • Essay writing OR role play presentation as described below A. Please give an example from your own life or environment about a medical communication situation which you were dissatisfied with or consider an example to follow! OR B. Group work through Teams and role-play in communicating bad news topic
• 8. Practice PART 2. • Home assignment has to be prepared at home • Essay writing OR role play presentation as described below A. Please give an example from your own life or environment about a medical communication situation which you were dissatisfied with or consider an example to follow! OR B. Group work through Teams and role-play in communicating bad news topic

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

János Pilling: Medical Communication, Medicina Kiadó, 2011.

Literature developed by the Department

Practice and lecture material

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Attendance of lectures and seminars is mandatory and will be monitored. Participation in group practices will be possible in the group you had previously been assigned to on NEPTUN. Changing to another group is only possible with the written permission of the Head of Department and this must be done before the beginning of the seminars. Absence from classes is accepted in accordance with the pertaining rules of the Code of Studies and Examinations. Mid-semester grade will be established on the basis of two written med-term electronical tests via NEPTUN. Oral opportunity is granted in the first two weeks of the instruction period to make up for the unsuccessful or missed classroom tests.

Mid-term exams

We offen midsemester grade upon in-house online testresult. It is possible to retake the exam at the date and mode determined by the Department of Primary Health Care in te first two weeks of the exam season.

Making up for missed classes

With preliminary permission of the Head of Department at another group possible.

Exam topics/questions

Based upon obligatory literature

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Dr. Bellyeiné Dr. Pozsgai Éva
• Dr. Heim Szilvia Mária
• Dr. Kürthy Dániel
• Dr. Steiner Viktória
• Dr. Varga Péter