Journal article
Training in communication of oncology clinicians: a position paper based on the third consensus meeting among European experts in 2018.
- Stiefel F Psychiatric Liaison Service, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland. Electronic address: frederic.stiefel@chuv.ch.
- Kiss A Division of Psychosomatic Medicine, Basel University Hospital, Switzerland.
- Salmon P Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool University, UK.
- Peters S Medical Oncology Service, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.
- Razavi D Jules Bordet Institute and Brussels University, Belgium.
- Cervantes A Valencia University, Spain.
- Margulies A EONS Education Working Group, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Bourquin C Psychiatric Liaison Service, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.
- 2018-11-10
Published in:
- Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology. - 2018
Clinical Competence
Communication
Consensus
Education, Medical, Continuing
Europe
Health Planning Guidelines
Humans
Medical Oncology
Neoplasms
Physician-Patient Relations
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Societies, Medical
English
Background
Since there is sound evidence that communication skills training (CST) programs modify communication behavior of oncology clinicians, they have been widely implemented over the last decades. However, more recently, certain aspects of this training have been criticized.
Methods
Based on this background, a call to re-launch a discussion about the future of CST led to the third European consensus meeting on communication in cancer care, organized by the Swiss Cancer League. During this meeting, which brought together European experts in the field of clinical communication and training of communication in the oncology setting, oncology clinicians, representatives of the European Society of Medical Oncology and a member of the European Oncology Nursing Society, the recommendations of the second European consensus meeting were updated and expanded.
Results
The expanded recommendations recall the guiding principles of communication in cancer care, underline the important role of clinician's self-awareness, and of relational and contextual factors in clinical communication, and provide direction for the further development of communication training.
Conclusion
This third European consensus meeting defines key elements for the development of a next generation of communication training for oncology clinicians.
Since there is sound evidence that communication skills training (CST) programs modify communication behavior of oncology clinicians, they have been widely implemented over the last decades. However, more recently, certain aspects of this training have been criticized.
Methods
Based on this background, a call to re-launch a discussion about the future of CST led to the third European consensus meeting on communication in cancer care, organized by the Swiss Cancer League. During this meeting, which brought together European experts in the field of clinical communication and training of communication in the oncology setting, oncology clinicians, representatives of the European Society of Medical Oncology and a member of the European Oncology Nursing Society, the recommendations of the second European consensus meeting were updated and expanded.
Results
The expanded recommendations recall the guiding principles of communication in cancer care, underline the important role of clinician's self-awareness, and of relational and contextual factors in clinical communication, and provide direction for the further development of communication training.
Conclusion
This third European consensus meeting defines key elements for the development of a next generation of communication training for oncology clinicians.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- bronze
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1093/annonc/mdy343
- PMID 30412225
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/232452
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