Writing, Speaking, and Communication Skills for Health Professionals

By Kirk T. Hughes, Deborah St James, Stephanie Roberson Barnard

Strong communication skills are required of today's health care practitioners. Medical writers, medical students, residents and postdoctoral associates, physicians, biomedical researchers, nurses, pharmacists, and others in the allied health professions must develop and continue to improve their communication skills if they aspire to excellence in the medical and biological sciences. This book--a guide that belongs in the personal library of every health care professional--brims with practical advice on a broad range of essential medical communication skills.

The volume opens with an examination of how to organize the complex technical data encountered in clinics and the scientific literature. Next the book discusses the publication and presentation tasks that health care practitioners face, in particular the journal article, the grant, the conference poster, and the curriculum vitae. The third section of the volume explores teaching medicine and the problem-based record, and the final section deals with timely topics in the business of health care, including customer service, practice-building in competitive markets, meetings skills, and business writing. Easy-to-read and wide ranging, this book is the ideal communication primer for everyone in the health care field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300088620
• ISBN13: 9780300088625
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Good book!

I am a recent MD graduate and I always wondered how I could improve on my writing and communicating skills. Let's face it, we are all very good to have gotten through medschool but at the same time we all have room for improvements!This book shows you how to write better and more effectively, too. Also, a great section deals with presentations and how to make them more understandable to the audience. There are great chapters dealing with publications and how to write good and clear scientific articles. This is great for all of us who strive for more publications! I always wondered how some medical articles were so unclear; I guess those guys didn't read this book!