Course description - Learning outcomes

Course description: To make medical students familiar with concepts and theories concerning doctor-patient relationships. To provide to the medical students practical guidelines for an effective doctor-patient communication. To enable them to prevent patient's dissatisfaction.

Learning outcomes: 
- The patient's definition of illness.
- Illness behavior: conceptual models.
- Models of the doctor-patient relationship: social system concept.
- The social role of the doctor.
- The patient's attitude toward the doctor.
- Factors leading to the patient dissatisfaction during his visit to the physician’s office.
- The office calls.
- Verbal and non-verbal techniques for an effective doctor-patient communication.
- Getting the family involved.
- Being a community doctor. Interaction between the doctor and the community.  

Objectives:To make medical students familiar with concepts and theories concerning doctor-patient relationships. To provide to the medical students practical guidelines for an effective doctor-patient communication. To enable them to prevent patient's dissatisfaction 

Keywords: doctor-patient relationship, communication.