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[Communication in medicine: a new and much needed curricular alternative]
Background:
Medical education must emphasize communication practices mostly for undergraduate medical students.
Objectives:
To introduce an approach for teaching and learning communication in medicine.
Methods:
Review of the literature.
Results:
An approach for developing communicational practices for both undergraduate and post graduate students is presented.
Conclusion:
Medical communication is not taught adequately in modern medical schools and is allotted a brief curricular space. This curricular time must be widened in order to support communication's central role.
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