In partnership with the UK Council of Clinical Communication in Undergraduate Medical Education, Medilectures has produced a series of online video modules that has found universal appeal in bothe the undergraduate and postgraduate fields.  The course has also been licensed internationally to professional bodies, Health Authorities and Deaneries.

With the use of actors for patients, the modules feature “as live” clinical scenarios with practising clinicians enabling students to make comparisons between their different approaches in varying circumstances. Interactive questions enable self-testing and review.

Take a look at one of the modules - Explanation & Planning - by clicking on the link opposite. You will need Adobe Flash player installed on your computer, a set of speakers or headphones and broadband (ADSL) access.

The courses are available for wider distribution and can be licensed for use outside the UK.  If you are interested in this avenue please contact domhartley@medilectures.com

Course Structure

• Introduction
• Initiating the Session
• Information Gathering & History Taking
• Physical Examination
• Explanation & Planning
• Building Relationships
• Providing Structure
• Closing the Consultation

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Essential Clinical Communication

Explanation & Planning

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About the Production

This package has been created by the UK Council of Clinical Communication in Undergraduate Medical Education, a national organisation representing the communication teaching leads of all 33 medical schools in the United Kingdom. The aims of the Council are to disseminate good practice, promote collaboration between schools, develop consensus guidelines for wider publication, encourage scholarship and develop collaborative research and teaching projects.

This e-learning resource was created to provide stimulating audiovisual materials to assist teachers and learners and to complement small group learning. The package

• provides a comprehensive resource, to enable the learner to explore the key tasks of the consultation.  

• demonstrates a range of clinical settings and scenarios, with doctors at different stages in their career. 

• creates a flexible resource that can be used in a variety of learning formats, for preparation or for reflection on practice

• provides links between research and practice for developing clinical communication skills

The video clips are of real doctors approaching each consultation without instruction apart from being provided with the information they would have in real practice.  Each doctor was asked to approach their patient as if for real; it was not scripted. As such the consultations presented in this resource are not intended to be perfect, or gold standard. They depict real doctors, doing what they would normally do, ‘warts and all’. The patients are simulated patients, experienced in enacting different situations. The clips include patients of different ages, gender and presenting with different problems. The scena

rios illustrate hospital admissions, the Emergency Department, wards, outpatients and primary care consultations. 

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Essential Clinical Communication