Communication Skills Mentoring Program

Communication Skills In the News

• AAOS Headline News - March 28, 2005
  Communication can combat doorknob syndrome

• AAOS Bulletin - February 2005
  Improve your communication across all cultures

• AAOS Bulletin -December 2004
  Getting the message across

• AAOS Headline News - Oct. 5, 2004
  Patients value interpersonal skills more than training or knowledge says survey

• AAOS Bulletin - October 2004
  Communicate, Communicate, say it again!

• AAOS Headline News - June 1, 2004
  Physician-patient communication still a problem

• AAOS Bulletin - June 2004
  Speaking "medical" presents challenges to patients

• Brigham and Women's Hospital - May 10, 2004
  Patients Report High Trust in Medical Specialists

• AAOS Headline News - April 9, 2004
  Nearly half of Americans don't understand medical terms, directions

• AAOS Bulletin - April 2004
  Put pediatric patients and parents in the picture

• AAOS Headline News - Feb. 25, 2004
  Film series focuses on cross-cultural health care

• AAOS Bulletin - February 2004
  AAOS looks at racial, ethnic, gender disparities in orthopaedics

• AAOS Bulletin - February 2004
  The value of patient education: Interdisciplinary program improves patient satisfaction, length of stay

• AAOS Headline News - Dec. 15, 2003
  Patient-centered communications stronger between physicians/patients of same race, says study

• AAOS Headline News - July 29, 2003
  Patients don't understand what doctors are saying says literacy group

• AAOS Headline News - July 23, 2003
  Hopkins researchers find that better communication and setting goals for patients speed their recovery

• AAOS Headline News - Nov. 8, 2002
  Doctors spend 12 minutes with patients, says PA survey

• AAOS Headline News - Aug. 13, 2002
  Study: female doctors' communications more patient-centered

• JAMA - June 12, 2002
  Physician-Patient Communication: A Lost Art?

• AAOS Headline News - June 20, 2002
  New medical licensing exam to test students on communicating

• AAOS Bulletin - February 2002
  Legal Issues: Informed consent

• AAOS Bulletin - February 2002
  Communicate: Communicating with compassion

• AAOS Headline News - Jan. 14, 2002
  Patients report communication problems with physicians

• AAOS Bulletin - August 2001
  Communications: Mentors will spread the word