How should pediatric communication skills be taught? The medical student perspective

Abstract

Alysha Bhatti, Midhat AhmedFaculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UKWe thank Frost et al1 for their article evaluating a scenario-based pediatric communication skills program for medical students at Cardiff University. The General Medical Council states that “effective communication between doctors and young people is essential to the provision of good care”; yet medical students are relatively underexposed to the pediatric clinical arena.2 Thus, we agree with the authors that undergraduate medical school curricula must place greater emphasis on garnering the unique skills of pediatric communication.View original paper by Frost and colleagues.

Keywords

• Pediatric communication skills
• medical student teaching
• student-led consultation