This is a blended learning unit with a focus on awareness , attitudes, skills and emotions.
The unit seeks to foster personal awareness when talking to patients and families and understand hoe this can benefit and compromise clinical encounters. Students will explore all aspects of clinical communication, gain a thorough knowledge of the attitudes and behaviours required to communicate effectively in emotional encounters.
Advance practice and service delivery through the enhancement of critical thinking and synthesis of a range of sources of evidence relevant to communication skills;
Increase participant’s awareness of their own communication skills and to explore strategies to enhance their ability to elicit and respond to patients’ problems, worries and concerns and deal more effectively with challenging communication situations.
Students will normally have the opportunity to receive feedback on formative work submitted prior to the summative assessment. Other feedback opportunities will also be available in class and online discussion boards. Online feedback is provided in Grademark. Provisional feedback based on internal marking will be made available prior to the Exam Board on the basis that these marks are yet to be ratified at the Exam Board and therefore may be subject to change. A standard feedback mechanism in Grademark is utilised across all postgraduate programmes within the School which provides detailed and constructive feedback on each component and aspect of assessment and identifies areas of strength and those aspects which could be enhanced.
Student feedback is obtained through open discussion forums on blackboard, in class discussions, via formal University unit evaluation forms and also qualitative, in house evaluations at the end of the unit.
