Margaret Lloyd – författare

Clinical Communication Skills for Medicine is an essential guide to the core skills for effective patient-centered communication. In the twenty years since this book was first published the teaching of these skills has developed and evolved. Today's doctors fully appreciate the importance of communicating successfully and sensitively with people receiving health care and those close to them.

This practical guide to developing communication skills will be of value to students throughout their careers. The order of the chapters reflects this development, from core skills to those required to respond effectively and compassionately in challenging situations. The text includes case examples, guidelines and opportunities to encourage the reader to stop and think.

The contents of the book cover:

The fundamental elements of clinical communication, including skills for effectively gathering and sharing information, discussing sensitive topics and breaking bad news.

Shared decision making, reflecting the rapid changes in expectations of medical care and skills for supporting patients in making decisions which are right for them.

Communicating with a patient's family, children and young people, patients from different cultural backgrounds, communicating via an interpreter and communicating with patients who have a hearing impairment.

Diversity in communication, including examples of communicating with patients who have a learning disability, transgender patients, and older adult patients.

Communicating about medical error, emphasising the importance of doctors being honest in the face of difficult situations.

This book showcases evidence-based accounts of how school systems can tackle the challenges associated with teacher training in integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. It reports on how a group of high school teachers from Papua New Guinea were upskilled in integrated STEM education through the Graduate Certificate in STEM Education course delivered by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (Australia). Through their own voices, the teachers present examples of how they applied their new knowledge and skills in their contexts by tackling real-world challenges and needs aligned with the PNG Curriculum and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Their narratives are framed in terms of the STEM pedagogies they adopted. The book provides evidence of how knowledge gained through postgraduate training has been implemented by teachers in their respective contexts, including some in rural and remote schools. Through the eyes of both teacher educators and teachers, this book demonstrates how integrated STEM Education can be delivered and serves as a helpful resource for academics, teachers, and policymakers.  Through these connections, academia and educational jurisdictions can sharpen their strategies for providing teacher in-service courses on integrated STEM Education.

This book showcases evidence-based accounts of how school systems can tackle the challenges associated with teacher training in integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. It reports on how a group of high school teachers from Papua New Guinea were upskilled in integrated STEM education through the Graduate Certificate in STEM Education course delivered by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (Australia). Through their own voices, the teachers present examples of how they applied their new knowledge and skills in their contexts by tackling real-world challenges and needs aligned with the PNG Curriculum and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Their narratives are framed in terms of the STEM pedagogies they adopted. The book provides evidence of how knowledge gained through postgraduate training has been implemented by teachers in their respective contexts, including some in rural and remote schools. Through the eyes of both teacher educators and teachers, this book demonstrates how integrated STEM Education can be delivered and serves as a helpful resource for academics, teachers, and policymakers.  Through these connections, academia and educational jurisdictions can sharpen their strategies for providing teacher in-service courses on integrated STEM Education.