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Teaching and training in breaking bad news at the Dutch medical schools: A comparison

E. M. van Weel-BaumgartenDepartment of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands; EVELYN M. VAN WEEL-BAUMGARTEN, PhD, is a general practitioner and an associate professor at the Department of Primary and Community Care of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands with a focus on research and teaching of doctor patient relation and communication skills.Correspondence[email protected]
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M. BrouwersDepartment of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands; MARIANNE BROUWERS, MD, is a general practitioner, a communication skills teacher and a PhD student at the Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands. Her focus of research is the development of communication skills training for medical students.
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F. GrosfeldUniversity Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; FRANS GROSFELD, PhD, is a communication skills trainer at the Department of Clinical Skills Training of the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. His field of expertise is the training of advanced skills in post-graduate education.
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F. Jongen HermusUniversity Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; FEMKE JONGEN-HERMUS, MD, is a physician and a teacher and coordinator of Clinical Skills in the Department of Clinical Skills Training of the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands.
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J. Van DalenSkillslab, FHML, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; JAN VAN DALEN, PhD, is an associate professor. He coordinates the teaching and assessing of communication skills at the Skillslab, FHML, Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
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B. BonkeErasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands; BENNO BONKE, PhD, is an associate professor of Medical Psychology at Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Focus of interest is professional behaviour in medical education and conscious versus unconscious processes in medicine.All authors are member of the NVMO Special Interest Group on Teaching Medical Communication Skills. This article was written on behalf this NVMO-SIG.
Pages 373-381 | Published online: 29 Mar 2012

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