Today in the summative evaluation period for group 16/2555 we discussed about communication skill for medical students. One student mentioned about the current core curriculum does not have enough time slot dedicating for communication practice, and she let us know that in Taiwan there is such a slot for doing the councelling for 2 weeks.
Although we do not have that slot, in my opinion we can do it anytime during their clinical rotation not only the ward rounds, during out patient clinic the student can have a chance to practice that. Even a short 2 week rotation for anaesthetics, if you have time to visit your patient before the operation, you can really learn from that moment, especially if you run into Anaesthesia Residents doing their preoperative evaluation routine near you, you should jump in this chance and chat with them, they would be very happy to answer if you have appropriate questions about why they order that treatment or do that intervention for the patients.
Preoperative evaluation is an essential heart for the practice of anaesthesia, you have a chance to meet your patients which is different from the surgical team which they have known each other for ages. You can have a chance to discuss choice of anaesthesia, plan in mind what you would do, what you will not to participate as a member of the team.
Communication is very important, sometimes you do have to speak out loud!! otherwise others would not understand you, they may think you do not say anything means that you have already accepted, have known it, because consultants may have "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Culture of Seniority does not mean that you should not speak, it would mean that you have to speak at the right time, ask if you do not understand, speak if you think that something is going out of the way it should be. Speak out before it is too late and ทุเรศ. You do have to.
Although we do not have that slot, in my opinion we can do it anytime during their clinical rotation not only the ward rounds, during out patient clinic the student can have a chance to practice that. Even a short 2 week rotation for anaesthetics, if you have time to visit your patient before the operation, you can really learn from that moment, especially if you run into Anaesthesia Residents doing their preoperative evaluation routine near you, you should jump in this chance and chat with them, they would be very happy to answer if you have appropriate questions about why they order that treatment or do that intervention for the patients.
Preoperative evaluation is an essential heart for the practice of anaesthesia, you have a chance to meet your patients which is different from the surgical team which they have known each other for ages. You can have a chance to discuss choice of anaesthesia, plan in mind what you would do, what you will not to participate as a member of the team.
Communication is very important, sometimes you do have to speak out loud!! otherwise others would not understand you, they may think you do not say anything means that you have already accepted, have known it, because consultants may have "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Culture of Seniority does not mean that you should not speak, it would mean that you have to speak at the right time, ask if you do not understand, speak if you think that something is going out of the way it should be. Speak out before it is too late and ทุเรศ. You do have to.
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