Communication Skills for Doctors

Designed for doctors, this course develops the core communication competencies needed for delivering patient‑centred care and resolving challenging interactions. Participants explore communication styles, cultural influences, and conflict‑management models to strengthen confidence and effectiveness in practice.

What You Will Learn

  • Defining communication
  • Relationship between communication and decision making
  • How we communicate to patients and what patients want to talk about
  • Good and poor communication
  • Communication skills
  • The 5 communication styles
  • Different methods of communication
  • How culture influences communication
  • Communication breakdown
  • Conflict
  • Communication models that can manage conflict
  • De-escalation
  • Assessment of learning

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Course Duration

6h

Who is the course aimed at?

Doctors

Course pre-requisites

N/A

Course Standard

Course is assessed and certificated

Number of Trainees

N/A

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