Struktura komunikacji medycznej
The structure of medical communication

Author(s): Marta Chojnacka-Kuraś, Antonina Doroszewska, Aldona Katarzyna Jankowska
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: medical communication; interdisciplinarity; medical curricula; communication skills training
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the chapter is to present (on the basis of literature and practice) the defining determinants of medical communication (its main purpose, participants, thematic scope and communication channels), as well as to outline its interdisciplinary nature, i.e. to indicate the scientific disciplines from which medical communication draws theories, research methods and inspirations (especially those that allow to maintain and develop an open approach to patients and the sensitivity of doctors to their needs). The approach to medical communication included in the works of Jan Doroszewski was recalled and it was clarified which relations of the participants of the act of communication fall within the narrow scope of medical communication (central relations: medical personnel – patient and his/her relatives; therapeutic team), and which within the broad approach (e.g. communication between doctors and the public and medical didactics, with particular emphasis on teaching communication).

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