Physician assistants (also known as physician associates or PAs) and other healthcare professionals speak a special language, ...

VitalTalk, the leading organization in improving clinical communication, announced the launch of Conversations That Matter: Engaging Patients Around Pain and Substance Use, a new asynchronous training ...

Patients value cancer surgeons who provide emotional support, maintain a hopeful attitude, and guide them in managing expectations during cancer care, according to a systematic review on patient ...

LIVERPOOL – Doctors need solid communication skills to interact with their patients. Two groups, medical students and newly arrived international medical graduates, could soon be using AI-based and ...

Effective communication at hospitals and health systems contributes to the development and sustainability of a culture of safety. Yet, miscommunication remains a consistent and pervasive problem. A ...

When patients feel nurses are listening to them, they self-report better care outcomes and a happier healthcare experience. Nurse leaders are quite familiar with this question from the HCAHPS survey: ...

Multiple factors contribute to a positive patient experience, says David Goldman, the new CMO of AdventHealth Altamonte ...

As AI enters clinical consultations, Marcus Lewis and colleagues argue that healthcare professionals need new competencies and educational support for safe human-AI collaboration Artificial ...

The Saint Louis University School of Medicine Clinical Skills Center (C.S.C.) is proud to collaborate and recruit members of the local community to serve as standardized patients (S.P.'s) in medical ...