Improving Doctor-Patient Relationship
An experience with an arrogant physician which prompted a bad experience at a medical center, motivated a couple to donate $42 million to the University of Chicago to create a new and developed institute to improving the education of doctor-patient relationship as much as science and technology. This new approach teaches the importance of listening, understanding, and empathizing with patients, which builds a doctor-patient relationship and encourages patients to be engaged in their treatment as well engaging in preventative measures.
While this seems like a great approach and really has potential to restore patient-physician interaction, how can one integrate this in their medical schooling curriculum and actually assess this type of behavior, whether it is during the training years or down the line? There is no doubt that medical student’s need ethics and patient-physician interaction training; however it’s difficult to assess how this would play out.
