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The East Anglia Deanery Communication Skills Teaching Project - Six years on

DJ
Draper, Juliet
 SJ
Silverman, Jonathan D.
 HA
Hibble, Arthur
 BR
Berrington, Robert M.
 KS
Kurtz, Suzanne M.
Medical Teacher
Journal · Vol. 24 · Issue 3 · pp. 294-298
Abstract

This paper describes the Cascade Communication Skills Teaching Project, which is a programme of facilitator training enabling communication skills teaching in the consultation to general practitioners to be cascaded throughout the former East Anglia Deanery. The paper also explores the project's educational and organizational effectiveness. The programme is based on an ongoing training programme for a cohort of around 30 district-based communication skills facilitators, and was set up in the autumn of 1995. These facilitators are now able to act as a resource to cascade high-quality communication skills teaching into vocational training schemes, trainer education and the continuing professional development of established general practitioners throughout each district in the region. The project has now been extended into medical student teaching, specialist teaching at junior and senior level, and multidisciplinary teaching.

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Teaching Skill training clinical competence medical education Humans Article interpersonal communication Vocational education general practitioner United Kingdom medical specialist medical student program evaluation teacher Program development competency-based education peer group consultation education program cohort analysis communication Family Practice continuing education Education, Medical, Continuing Great Britain Physician-Patient Relations
Author Affiliations
School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
University of East Anglia, Norwich Medical School, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Faculties of Education and Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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