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Training of Lecturers
Training for Paediatricians and Paediatric Students
Multilanguage dictionary of medical terms
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access to a description of each contractual partner of the Softis-Ped project.
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Lecturers
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the paediatric lecturers involved in the Softis-Ped Project in the 5 European countries involved.
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Residents Working with Children Information
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the paediatricians involved in the Softis-Ped Project in the 5 European countries involved.
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Paediatric students
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the paediatric students involved in the Softis-Ped Project in the 5 European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years.
Events
The Softis-Ped project has been promoted trough conferences and articles.
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Conferences
The Softis-Ped project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved
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Training Activity
The training activity 'Soft Skills in Pediatrics' was held at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu Mures (RO)
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Press Review
The Softis-Ped project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of paediatrics and education
This section of the Softis-Ped portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission and it is password protected.
Training of Lecturers
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This training package is addressed to lecturers and trainers in the field of paediatrics on how to assist paediatric undergraduate and resident students in developing and consolidating their soft skills for improving the quality of paediatric services.
Communicating with Other Health Care Staff in Pediatrics
5.4. Teaching Soft Skills – Strategies and Methods
5.4.6. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
The OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) is a unique evaluation tool that can be used to provide a standardized assessment of students’ competency in several areas of education, including communication skills between healthcarers and treatment planning. Communication OSCE stations can be created with acceptable reliability including difficult cases which address communication skills beyond simple history taking.
Hodges et al. (1996) founded a strong interaction between difficulty and station content and between communication scores and content. This study shows that scenarios which created major communication difficulties (such as mania) resulted in much larger differences in scores between the easy and difficult versions.
Hodges et al. (1996) founded a strong interaction between difficulty and station content and between communication scores and content. This study shows that scenarios which created major communication difficulties (such as mania) resulted in much larger differences in scores between the easy and difficult versions.
Practical Activity
- Teaching the communication using problem-based learningThis power point presentation gives an example of how to use PBL in order to teach communication with other health care staff in paediatrics. The problem addressed is the lack of communication between health care staff: the practical activity involves soft skills such as problem solving and communication.
- Role playing: communication between health care staffLesson plan which may be followed in order to prepare a lesson on communicating with other health care staff, using the role playing method. Teachers may choose either a common or a specific situation of communication within the health care staff. The soft skill involved is emphatic and effective communication.
Online Resources
- Reliability and generalizability of OSCEOnline abstract showing reliability and generalizability of objective structured clinical examination format for evaluating communication skills.
Case Study
- Communication between health care staff with difficult patient and cooperative familyCase study presenting the methodologies and strategies to communicate with other health care staff during hospitalization of a “difficult” patient and his cooperative family.
A related case study is “Communication between health care staff with cooperative patient and difficult family” - Communication between health care staff with cooperative patient and difficult familyCase study presenting the methodologies and strategies to communicate with other health care staff during hospitalization of a cooperative patient and his “difficult” family.
A related case study is “Communication between health care staff with difficult patient and cooperative family”
