Peshawar: A post-graduate course for trainee medical officers was recently held at Sardar Begum Dental College. The event was a joint venture of Pakistan Society of Physicians and Gandhara University. The course aimed to highlight the importance of effective communication in patient’s management.
The facilitators of the course included Dr Aleina Badshah, Dr Awais Naeem, Dr Samir Kabir and Dr Jibran Umar Ayub. The facilitators shared their experience and gave constructive feedback to the participants.
The course focused on various aspects of communication like addressing patient concerns, maintaining their welfare and developing sound clinical judgement. Common scenarios like breaking the bad news, end of life care, obtaining a consent, genetic counselling, breaking confidentiality, drug errors were discussed at length. There was also some focus on history taking of common symptoms that are encountered in the clinical setting.
Rashid Ahmed Khan Tahirkheli, vice-chancellor, Gandhara University was the chief guest of the event. He appreciated the efforts of the organisers. He also emphasised on practical communication skills, being the cornerstone of clinical management and suggested that we still need a lot of improvement in this field.
The event concluded with the distribution of certificates and shields amongst the participants, organisers and faculty.
-DN Report
Dr Muattar Hanif
The author is Editor at Dental News Pakistan and can be reached at newsdesk@medicalnewsgroup.com.pk
