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- R Moorhead and H Winefield.
- Department of Community Medicine, University of Adelaide, Australia.
- Fam Pract. 1991 Dec 1;8(4):343-6.
AbstractAdvocacy of communication skills training in medical curricula is common, but this paper highlights some paradoxes which become apparent when such training is instituted. Fourth-year medical students completed a standardized questionnaire measure of empathy, before and after intensive training in counselling and communication in general practice. Low rates of empathetic responding were shown, and no increase occurred after training. The results are discussed in terms of an emerging dilemma within medical education and practice, namely the conflict between the traditional view of the doctor as problem-solver and recent evidence of the health benefits of a more patient-centred style of medical practice.
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