Communication Skills for Doctors - Key Topics

Enhance your communication skills with our online course for doctors, designed for healthcare professionals, locums, and agencies in the UK. Learn effective communication strategies and improve patient interactions. Easy to complete on any device.

  • What is Communication?

  • Importance of Communication in Healthcare

  • Communicating with Colleagues

  • Communicating with Service Users

  • The Communication Process

  • Communication and Decision Making

  • Good and Poor Communication

  • The Five Communication Styles

  • Communication Methods

  • Communication Breakdown and Strategies for Overcoming Difficulties

Key Learning Outcomes

  • Define communication and understand its importance in healthcare.

  • Describe the relationship between communication and decision-making in a healthcare setting.

  • dentify good and poor communication practices in healthcare.

  • Explain how culture influences communication and what can contribute to communication breakdown.

  • Apply communication models to manage conflict within a team and de-escalate difficult situations.

  • Utilize effective communication methods, including listening, non-verbal, verbal, questioning, written, and signs and symbols.

Why Choose This Course?

ACI Training & Consultancy is a leading provider of healthcare training in the UK, known for our high-quality courses and expert trainers. Our online courses are designed to be engaging, informative, and effective, helping healthcare professionals improve their skills and knowledge.

  • Comprehensive: Covers all essential aspects of communication skills for doctors

  • Accessible: Easy-to-follow online format, accessible on any device (computer, tablet, phone, iPad, iPhone)

  • Flexible: Learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere

  • Practical: Develop real-world communication skills applicable to various healthcare settings

  • CPD Accredited: Enhance your professional development with our certified course

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction and Key Learning Outcomes

    2. Course (PDF)

    3. Test

Price

  • £6.00

Course Information

Once you purchase the course, it is valid for you to take for 90 days.

  • ACI have developed this course in response to demand from various sources including medical locums, health care recruitment agencies and NHS organisations.

  • The aims and objectives of the course are to define communication and why it is so important in healthcare and to become familiar with the relationship between communication and decision making.

  • We explore how we communicate and what patients want to talk to us about as well as examining what is good and poor communication.  We explain the various communication styles; methods and models and also how culture can influence communication.

  • Some employers/agencies require this as mandatory - please check with your employer/agency if you are required to do this course before making a purchase.

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