| CODE | MDS1011 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Medical Leadership - Interpersonal Communication Skills | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Medicine and Surgery | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The medical leadership seminars are founded on the recognition that in today’s world doctors are faced with the challenge of engaging with complex, multi-tiered systems and working under an increasing amount of pressure. With this in mind, this series of seminars are aimed at supporting the emerging student-doctor and providing more of the skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary in the personal and professional formation of a doctor who can address the best health gains for his/her patients and guarantee an increasing level of patient satisfaction. There is a growing acknowledgement that doctors need to develop leadership and management competences to become more actively involved in the planning, delivery and transformation of patient services. This leadership training programme for medical students is aimed at teaching effective leadership and will draw upon students’ values, strengths and abilities to deliver high standards of care. Teaching will focus on: • Self-awareness: values, principles, assumptions and learning from experiences through self-reflection encouraging personal growth; • Self-management: organising self while taking account of the needs and priorities of others; • Self-development: learning through participation, receiving feedback and continuing professional development; • Acting with integrity: behaving in an open and ethical manner. Effective leadership training will encourage the medical student to develop networks, build and maintain relationships, and encourage contribution of ideas. Medical students will receive guidance and training about becoming effective leaders in the clinical setting and in the community. Research across several disciplines demonstrates that communication skills are one of the key skill areas that a leader needs to develop. This seminar focuses on learning skills for more effective communication and experiencing the practice of skills which fine tune professional communication as well as giving and receiving feedback. The method of learning and training is experiential. Study-Unit Aims: The aim of the study-unit is to sensitize the students to these issues, and to teach them the relevant skills that will enable them to be effective through communication, in a group, and within a team. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify the principles of interpersonal communication; - Be aware that better communication will make them better persons and better doctors & dentists; - Reflect on judging and making assumptions when communicating with patients and be aware of judgements and assumptions that people might make about them; - Reflect on how social networks changed the way we communicate our sense of self and how social networks are leaving an impact on medicine. - Reflect on boundaries in inter-personal communication even when using social networks. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Practice the skills of effective communication, including the provision of empathy, feedback and assertiveness when required; - Practice the skills of self-reflection and reflection on what is occurring in the environment around oneself, leading to ongoing personal growth. - Be more aware on what hinders communication – Environmental/intra & inter-personal factors. - Redefine effective communication with patients. Introduction to interviewing techniques. - Be more aware of Non-Verbal Communication. Communicating myself non-verbally. Reading patients better. - Reflect and practice Empathy – Differences between Empathy and Clinical Empathy and introducing attunement. - Manage to give and receive, code and decode feedback – Giving feedback constructively - Reflect on and practice assertiveness. Be more aware of their style – Passive/Assertive –Aggressive and understand contexts where it can be used. Understand how their style developed. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - LLOYD M, BOR R. Communication Skills for Medicine. Churchill Livingstone, 2009, 3rd edition. [ISBN-13: 9780702030581 Further Reading material will be provided during study-unit. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Please note that a pass in each assessment component is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. Students will be allowed to resit the Assignment component in the September Exam Session if they pass the Competencies component of the respective section. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Tutorial and Practical | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Nadya Abdilla Joshua Aquilina Oscar Aquilina Stephanie Bartolo Winston Bartolo Charlene Borg Walter Busuttil Stephanie Caruana David Cassar Doreen Cassar Mary Rose Gauci Louise Ghirlando David Grillo (Co-ord.) Graziella Mercieca Anne Marie Micallef Emma Micallef Ryan Portelli Pullicino Veronica Said Ventura Stephanie Savona Audrey Sciberras |
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The University makes every effort to ensure that the published Courses Plans, Programmes of Study and Study-Unit information are complete and up-to-date at the time of publication. The University reserves the right to make changes in case errors are detected after publication.
The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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