I was coaching a physician on communication, and at one point our conversation took an interesting turn. We had been talking about interprofessional communication, when the physician told me she was worried about offending people unintentionally. At first, I thought she was talking about her colleagues. But she also gave some examples of interactions with […]
4 Questions to ask about mentoring in the health professions
About a year and a half ago, I began a series of conversations with an MD in Academic Medicine, who was interested in restarting the mentoring program at her medical center. She knew it would be a complex and significant undertaking. One ‘problem’ is the massive body of research on mentoring in the professions. Also, […]
2 things to remember when educating your next patient
If you’re a health care provider, you educate patients in some way. Theories about education, like any others, can morph over time. This episode invites you to consider what you’ve been assuming about learning and learners. And I give you two things to keep in mind for the next time you educate a patient. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hi, […]
12 Reflective practice prompts for health professionals
[This post available as a podcast episode here.] I have heard “reflective practice” mentioned a few times, in the years I have been talking with physicians, medical educators, and public health professionals. Dr. Tasha Wyatt, of the Educational Innovation Institute at the Medical College of Georgia, explained to me: “Physicians are trained–very much so–to gather […]
Two things to remember before you educate your next patient
Today brings a close to a series I started a few months back, called 5 steps to improve your patient education. I promised to take a closer look at each of those 5 steps. So far I’ve written about eliciting patient background knowledge; how you handle your medical knowledge; being clear about your goals for […]
Providers, your language may have more power than you realize
Your words matter. Maybe more than you think. But why the piranha picture? Listen to find out. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hi. This is 10 minutes to better patient communication. I’m Dr. Anne Marie Liebel. I was recently speaking with a woman who has Stage III ovarian cancer. We were talking about the language that gets used […]