Requirements and course description
2023/2024 – 1st year
Medical communication course code:AOKMAG670_1A
credit: 2 credits
CONTACTS
Course director: Dr. Adrienne Stauder (stauder.adrienne[at]med.semmelweis-univ.hu)
Course leader: Dr. János Pilling
Secretaries: Csilla Motyovszki and Réka Polgárdi
Secretariat: NET Building, 20th floor, Room 2015; E-mail: titkarsag.magatartastudomany[at]semmelweis-univ.hu;
Tel: 210-2930 extension 56126 or 56114
With any request concerning the course, please first contact the course secretariat.
Semester: 2023/24 I.
Course objectives:
Proper communication is an essential element of effective healing. Good communication helps to form a trusting relationship between the physician and the patient, it allows the doctor to gather effectively the information that underpins the diagnosis, and it improves the patient’s cooperation and adherence with treatments. The aim of education is partly to teach communication techniques that can make the daily tasks of doctors more effective: listening to, interviewing, informing and promoting cooperation of the patients. The subjects of education are also elements of the everyday doctor-patient relationship, which have recently come to the fore, such as e.g shared decision making, suggestive effects of medical communication, communication aspects of patient safety.
In addition to describing the general regularities of medical communication, the course also presents the specialities of communication in various areas of the health care. Thus, we deal with the peculiarities of communication with children or the elderly, discussion about sexual topics and the cultural competence of the doctor. In our education, we place great emphasis on the difficult issues of the doctor-patient relationship, so we deal with the communication of bad news and the prevention and management of aggression.
The main goal of the course is to teach special communication knowledge to medical students that can help them create proper doctor-patient relationship and improve their effectiveness in medical practice. .
Course text book (to be used for preparing for the exam):
Pilling János (ed.) Medical Communication in Practice, Medicina 2020.
In the bookstores of the Medicina Kiadó (https://www.medicina-kiado.hu/cegunkrol/boltjaink/) students of the Semmelweis University are entitled to a 10% discount upon presentation of their student ID.
Complementary teaching materials to be used for the preparation of the practices/seminars and the exam are available in the Moodle ( https://itc.semmelweis.hu/moodle/ )
Other recommended text books:
Washer, P. (2009): Clinical Communication Skills. (Oxford Core texts). Oxford University Press.
McCorry, L.K. & Mason, J. (2011): Communication skills for the healthcare professionals. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
Tamparo, C.D & Lindh, W.Q (2017): Therapeutic communication for health care professionals. Cengage Learning, Boston
Hugman,. B. (2009): Healthcare communication. Pharmaceutical Press, London
COURSE SYLLABUS
LECTURES: Week 1-7
Time: Tuesdays 13:00-14:30
Venue: NET Zöld (Green Lecture Hall) (1089 Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4. )
Week 1 (September 5): Introduction. Communication difficulties and possible solutions in the everyday medical practice. (János Kollár)
Week 2. (September 12): Breaking Bad News. Disclosing Medical Errors. (János Kollár)
Week 3. (September 19): Promoting behavior change. The development of the patient-physician collaboration (Adrienne Stauder)
Week 4. (September 26): The specialties of age in medical communication. (Kinga Babonits-Farkas)
Week 5. (October 3): Communication about functional complaints (Adrienne Stauder)
Week 6. (October 10): Suggestive communication in medical practice. (János Kollár)
Week 7. (October 17): Telemedicine, E-health. (Kinga Babonits-Farkas)
SEMINARS: Week 8-14 (see times, venues and teachers at the bottom)
Week 8. Seminar. Communication in everyday life and in the medical practice.
Week 9. : Seminar. The active listening. Communication aspects in empathy.
Week 10.: Patient information, patient education.
Week 11. : Seminar. Promoting lifestyle change. suggestive communication techniques, motivational interview, shared decision-making.
Week 12. : Seminar. Communicating bad news (practice). Communicating with depressed patients. Recognizing the risk of suicide.
Week 13.: Seminar. Communication with tense, hostile patients, strategies to prevent violence. Communicating about intimate issues.
Week 14.: Seminar. The cultural competence of the doctor. Communicating about complementary and alternative therapies.
Exam period: December 11, 2023 – February 9, 2024
Requirements for the signature at the end of the semester:
A signature will be given with the prerequisite of participation at minimum 75% of the seminars.
Participation and making up for absences:
Participation list will be recorded at every seminar. It is possible to make up for ONE absence by participating in another seminar group the same week (only once in a semester, upon agreement with both teachers!).
Type of the exam: oral
Method of the calculation of marks: performance on the oral exam.
Requirements for the exam: The oral exam is based on the course text book (Pilling, János: Medical Communication in practice. Medicina, Budapest, 2020.) and the lectures; lecture recordings and handouts will be posted in the Moodle.
Exam topics: (see Exam topics list “A” and “B” among the next tabs)
Application and changing the application for the exam: Through the Neptun system.
Seminars and course schedule
Seminars and course schedule
2023/2024 1st Semester
Medical communication seminars and teachers 2023-2024/ I. semester
Seminars and teachers
EM1 – Group 1
Thursday 12:30-14:00; NET-SZ.01
Teacher: Péter Ujma
EM1 – Group 2
Friday 11:30-13:00; GMFEOK-SZEM-2
Teacher: Mónika Sándor
EM1 – Group 3
Friday 11:30-13:00; NET-SZ.08
Teacher: Karolina Szabó
EM1 – Group 4
Friday 11:45-13:15; NET-SZ.04
Teacher: Mária Bényi
EM1 – Group 5
Friday 09:45-11:15; GMFEOK-SZEM-2
Teacher: Mónika Sándor
EM1 – Group 6
Thursday 09:45-11:15; NET-SZ.06
Teacher: Éva Kozlovsky
EM1 – Group 7
Monday 08:00-09:30; NET-SZ.07
Teacher: Tamás Szalai
EM1 – Group 8
Friday 11:30-13:00; NET-SZ.01
Teacher: László Lajtai
EM1 – Group 9
Wednesday 15:45-17:15; NET-SZ.08
Teacher: Karolina Szabó
EM1 – Group 10
Monday 09:45-11:15; NET-SZ.10
Teacher: Zsófia Hídvégi
EM1 – Group 11
Monday 09:45-11:15; NET-SZ.09
Teacher: Johanna Deák
EM1 – Group 12
Wednesday 10.00-11.30; NET-SZ.08
Teacher: Benjámin Fogas
EM1 – Group 13
Thursday 14:15-15:45; NET-SZ.01
Teacher: Péter Ujma
EM1 – Group 14
Friday 13:45-15:15; NET-SZ.04
Teacher: Mária Bényi
EM1 – Group 15
Thursday 12:30-14:00; NET-SZ.04
Teacher: Éva Kozlovsky
EM1 – Group 16
Wednesday 15:15-16:45; NET-SZ.10
Teacher: Mónika Sándor
EM1 – Group 17
Wednesday 10.00-11.30; NET-SZ.10
Teacher: Tamás Szalai
EM1 – Group 18
Monday 08:00-09:30; NET-SZ.09
Teacher: Johanna Deák
EM1 – Group 19
Monday 08:00-09:30; NET-SZ.05
Teacher: Zsófia Hídvégi
EM1 – Group 20
Monday 14:00-15:30; NET-SZ.07
Teacher: Karolina Szabó
EM1 – Group 21
Thursday 09:45-11:15; GMFEOK-SZEM-6
Teacher: János Kollár
EM1 – Group 22
Thursday 11:30-13:00; GMFEOK-SZEM-6
Teacher: János Kollár
NET seminar rooms, NET Green lecture room: 1089 Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4; first floor
EOK seminar rooms: 1094 Budapest, Tűzoltó utca 37-47. first floor
Teacher’s contact:
Bényi Mária
benyi.maria[at]gmail.com
Deák Johanna
johanna.deak[at]gmail.com
Fogas Benjamin
benyofogas[at]gmail.com
Hídvégi Zsófia
hidvegi.zsofi[at]gmail.com
Kollár János
janoskollar[at]gmail.com
Kozlovsky Éva
evakozlovsky[at]gmail.com
Lajtai László
lajtai.laszlo[at]med.semmelweis-univ.hu
Sándor Mónika
moni.sandor1[at]gmail.com
Szabó Karolina
karolinaa.szabo[at]gmail.com
Szalai Tamás Dömötör
szalai.domotor[at]gmail.com
Ujma Péter
peteru88[at]gmail.com
Lectures
LECTURES: Week 1-7
Time: Tuesdays 13:00-14:30
Venue: NET Zöld (Green Lecture Hall) (1089 Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4. )
Week 1 (September 5): Introduction. Communication difficulties and possible solutions in the everyday medical practice. (János Kollár)
Week 2. (September 12): Breaking Bad News. Disclosing Medical Errors. (János Kollár)
Week 3. (September 19): Promoting behavior change. The development of the patient-physician collaboration (Adrienne Stauder)
Week 4. (September 26): The specialties of age in medical communication. (Kinga Babonits-Farkas)
Week 5. (October 3): Communication about functional complaints (Adrienne Stauder)
Week 6. (October 10): Suggestive communication in medical practice. (János Kollár)
Week 7. (October 17): Telemedicine, E-health. (Kinga Babonits-Farkas)
Exam topics
Exam topics list “A”:
- The significance of medical communication. Misconceptions and facts about medical communication.
- Doctor-patient consultation.
- Promoting lifestyle change: the 5A and 5R methods; the transtheoretical model of behavior change.
- Promoting lifestyle change: motivational interviewing.
- Communication options for developing health literacy.
- Communicating risks of treatments.
- Shared decision making.
- Suggestive communication in medical practice.
- Communication with children.
- Communication with older people. Communication with elderly having age-related mental disorders.
- Cultural competence of the physician.
Exam topics list „B”
- Communication about functional symptoms
- Communication with patients using complementary and alternative treatments.
- Communicating about intimate issues.
- Communication with tense, hostile people.
- Communication with depressed patients. Recognizing the risk of suicide.
- Communication with patients having anxiety symptoms or addictions.
- Breaking bad news.
- Communication aspects of patient safety.
- Communication with people living with disabilities.
- Communication with the victims of abuse.
- E-health: use of t technological tools in health communication.