Undergraduate Medical Training in Communication Skills: From Face-to-Face to Virtual Environments

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Author(s): Elena María Trujillo Maza (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), María Teresa Gómez Lozano (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), Daniel Enrique Suárez Acevedo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)and Mariana Lema-Vélez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 14
Source title: Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mildred Lopez (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8783-6.ch014

Keywords: Knowledge Management and Library Science / Medical Education / Medical Information Science Reference / Telemedicine

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Communication skills are important for physicians, as they are continuously in contact with human beings—patients, families, or members of healthcare teams—in various circumstances. At Universidad de los Andes' School of Medicine, these skills are a fundamental part of the curriculum and the subject of two undergraduate concentration courses. The purpose of this chapter is to present the experience of transitioning one of these courses, Communication Skills II, from face-to-face to a virtual learning environment as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It describes the rationale behind teaching communication skills, illustrates how the course was developed and taught face-to-face, presents the challenges posed the COVID-19 pandemic, explains the transition of the course to a virtual learning environment, and concludes by offering an overview of the evaluations and perceptions of the course, as taught in the virtual environment, by those involved in it.

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