Nauczanie komunikacji medycznej – postawy i perspektywa studentów kierunków medycznych
Teaching medical communication – attitudes and perspectives of medical faculties students

Author(s): Antonina Doroszewska, Iwona Drozdowska
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: medical communication; communication skills teaching and learning; medical education
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the issue of students’ attitudes towards communication classes in the context of building curriculum and the implementation of teaching activities. In the first part of the paper, theories were cited as a reference point for the study of students’ attitudes. The description of the development of education in the field of communication competences in Poland was used to justify the need to analyze the attitudes of students toward learning communication skills. The second part presents the results of a study conducted among 650 students of the Medical University of Warsaw, from the faculty of medicine, nursing and midwifery. The next section compares the results of the research conducted among MUW students with the results of other Polish and foreign studies. When planning communication classes, it is necessary to take into account different approaches to learning these skills depending on gender, the risk of a decrease in positive attitudes over the years of study, the importance of modeling attitudes by teachers in clinics. For the quality of teaching, the organization of education is important, as well as the selection of appropriate didactic methods to maintain the positive attitudes of students who continue to learn communication in the subsequent years of education.

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