Dentistry 2017
STUDY GUIDE
Semester VI
BLOCK
COMMUNICATION IN DENTISTRY
06 Juni 2017 13 Juli 2017
School of Dentistry
Faculty of Medicine Udayana University
2017
The Block Medical Communication (MC) has been designed to provide the medical
students with enough opportunity to learn communication skills needed in medical
profession. The first part of the Block curriculum deals with basic concepts of
communication skills required to build effective interaction between doctor and
patient/relative such as basic concepts in medical communication, taking history, reviewing
the system, and approaching to specific patients such as different cultural background,
paediatric, psychiatric and obstetric patients. There are also time allocation for student to
rehearse their skill in communication through role play in basic clinical skill, comprising the
skills in opening the session, gathering information, building relationship, giving explanation
and planning, closing the session, and imparting bad news. In the later part of the
curriculum, the programs concern with other aspects of communication skills such as writing
medical notes and letters, techniques of paper presentation and discussion, communication
in health promotion and education, and scientific writing. The forms of the teaching -
learning activities include reading assignments, lectures, small group discussions, and
exercises on self-assessment items to test students understanding on the main contents of
lectures and reading material.
On having completed the Blocks programs at the first semester, we hope that the
students will be reasonably proficient in the skills of effective communication that they can
use throughout all stages of their medical training especially the later clinical stages, as
well as throughout their future medical career after qualification.
This small Study Guide manual has been written to aid students to get through the
various teaching-learning activities without too much difficulty. As it contains all the
necessary information such as time-table of learning activities, subjects/topics and tasks or
assignments, the students will know in advance what to learn, when and how to do it and
what to expect from them. In short, with this manual at hand, the students should be able to
prepare themselves properly before participating in each teaching-learning activity.
We hope that this manual is useful not only for the students, but also for the lecturers
and facilitators.
Team of Planners
Block Medical Communication
Aims:
To introduce to the students the basic principles and skills of communication essential in
medical profession: taking patients history, approaching patient with specific clinical
situation or entity, and communicating with professional associates.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand and apply the basic principles of effective communication with patient
and family
2. Understand and apply communication strategy for health promotion and education to
lay community
3. Communicate effectively with professional associates in scientific meeting
4. Write professional letters, notes and curriculum vitae
5. Apply basic principles of scientific writing in professional communication
6. Apply specific approach or communication strategy to patient with specific clinical
condition or entity
Curriculum contents:
1. Principles of communication between doctor and patient/family
2. Concepts of history taking and review of the body systems
3. Skills in communicating with patients
4. Communicating with patients from different cultural backgrounds
5. Approaching patient with specific situation or entity:
a. Questioning about sexual history and examining obstetric patient
b. Communicating with child patients and their parents
c. Communicating with patients with psychological problem and disorder
6. Concepts and skills of paper presentation and discussion
7. Concepts and skills of communication in health promotion and education
8. Writing medical letters, notes and curriculum vitae (CV)
9. Concepts and skills of scientific writing.
Studying medicine is very hard and therefore severely demands that you have a strong
determination to study, attend lectures and discussions as scheduled, read learning
materials diligently and critically, and execute your assignments properly and on time.
Although studying manner differs from one individual student to the other, there are things
that have much in common to achieve success.
Here are some general tips for you to comply in order to reach success in your studies
at this Faculty, including the Block Medical Communication.
1. Keep your enthusiasm high for your tasks
Your high scores you were able to obtain at High School that enabled you to enrol to
this Faculty of Medicine tell that basically you have the basic potential to reach
success in your present studies. Different from the school study, however, at
university you are faced with more complex work, more wide and critical reading,
and you must focus on issues in a more detailed and searching way. This means
you should be able to manage yourself and your time wisely. Being a last
minute crammer for lectures and assignments is a serious disadvantage and reflects
poor self-motivation.
2. Increase your proficiency in reading, writing and speaking
You are given a great deal of reading material, so you have to be selective with
which to read in-depth or superficially, know which is important and which is not, see
beyond the details to the underlying principles, pay attention to similarities and
differences, to note exceptions to general rules, to understand cause and effect
relationships, tie in what you are reading with what you already know, etc. Similarly,
you have to keep-up your writing and speaking ability to such a level required for
university studies (in Bahasa Indonesia and/or in English). It is for all these purposes
that this Faculty includes Academic Reading, Critical Thinking, Speaking in
Conferences, and Scientific Writing courses in this Block and in a few other blocks.
There are also both General English and Medical English courses offered by this
Faculty. You must remember that reading, writing and speaking are three main
elements of communication skills of great importance in almost all
professions, including medicine in particular. So why not make the best out of
these courses!
3. Have flexibility in thinking and learning
As a medical student, you are dealing with large bodies of information with which
you gradually have to become familiar. In our medical school curriculum system, the
first seven semesters are devoted to integrated learning of basic biomedical and
clinical sciences, while the later five semesters are concentrated more on clinical
studies with real patients. Generally, the teaching-learning activities of the early
seven semesters consist of lectures, discussions on specific learning tasks or
problems, and in some topics simulations/role-plays. Since early in your studies, you
are introduced to the relation of biomedical knowledge to their clinical implications. In
some of the learning tasks or model cases in the earlier semesters, you may not yet
familiar with certain terms regarding diseases or other clinical disorders mentioned in
the tasks/simulated cases. Each lecture takes only one hour for a topic, in which the
lecturer explains more about concepts and principles rather than on details of factual
information. In consequence, therefore, it is your responsibility to find out explanation
to unknown terms or diseases and you have to read more extensively to get more
information from your reading resources. In fact, unlimited amount of information is
in existence in the library and on the internet about almost anything. Therefore, the
~ NARASUMBER ~
~ FASILITATOR ~
~ JADWAL PEMBELAJARAN ~
HARI / NARA
WAKTU KEGIATAN TEMPAT
TANGGAL SUMBER
Kuliah 1 : Pengantar Ilmu Komunikasi Medis
08.00 -
09.00 dr. Made
RUANG Ratna
09.00 - Kuliah 2 : Konsep Dasar Komunikasi dengan Pasien dan KULIAH Saraswati,
10.00 Keluarganya SKILL LAB Sp.PD-
HARI 1 : LT. 1 KEMD-
10.00 - FINASIM
Selasa Kuliah 3 : Konsep Dasar Anamnesis
11.00
06 Juni 11.00 -
Belajar Mandiri
2017 12.00
12.00 -
Istirahat
13.00
13.00 -
14.00
Tugas Kelompok Pembimbing
14.00 -
15.00
08.00 - PREKLINIK IV SKILL LAB INSTRUKTUR
09.00 LT. 4
13.00 - RUANG
Diskusi 2: Konsep Dasar Komunikasi dengan Pasien dan Keluarganya Fasilitator
14.00 DISKUSI
14.00 -
Diskusi 3: Konsep Dasar Anamnesis
15.00
08.00 -
Belajar Mandiri
09.00
09.00 -
Pleno 1: Pengantar Ilmu Komunikasi Medis dr. Made
10.00
RUANG Ratna
10.00 - KULIAH Saraswati,
Pleno 2: Konsep Dasar Komunikasi dengan Pasien dan Keluarganya
11.00 SKILL LAB Sp.PD-
HARI 3 :
LT. 1 KEMD-
11.00 - FINASIM
Kamis, Pleno 3: Konsep Dasar Anamnesis
12.00
08 Juni 12.00 -
Istirahat
2017 13.00
13.00 -
14.00
Tugas Kelompok Pembimbing
14.00 -
15.00
08.00 -
09.00
09.00 -
10.00
10.00 -
11.00
11.00 -
Jumat, PREKLINIK III RSPTN INSTRUKTUR
12.00
09 Juni 12.00 -
2017 13.00
13.00 -
14.00
14.00 -
15.00
08.00 -
Belajar Mandiri
09.00
13.00 -
Istirahat
14.00
14.00 -
Tugas Kelompok Pembimbing
15.00
08.00 -
Belajar Mandiri
09.00
Diskusi 4 : Pengantar Komunikasi di Bidang Kedokteran Gigi
09.00 -
10.00
10.00 - RUANG
Diskusi 5 : Komunikasi dengan Pasien dari Berbagai Latar Belakang Fasilitator
11.00 DISKUSI
HARI 5 :
11.00 -
Selasa Diskusi 6 : Komunikasi dengan Pasien dengan Gangguan Kejiwaan
12.00
13 Juni 12.00 -
Istirahat
2017 13.00
14.00 -
Tugas Kelompok Pembimbing
15.00
08.00 -
09.00
09.00 - SKILL LAB
PREKLINIK IV INSTRUKTUR
10.00 LT. 4
10.00 -
HARI 2b : 11.00
11.00 -
Rabu, Istirahat
12.00
08.00 -
dr. I Putu
09.00 RUANG
Adiartha
09.00 - BCS 1: Skills in communicating with patients: Iniating the session and KULIAH
Griadhi,
10.00 Gathering information SKILL LAB
S.Ked., M.
10.00 - LT. 1
Fis., AIFO.
HARI 6 : 11.00
11.00 -
Kamis, Istirahat
12.00
15 Juni RUANG
2017 12.00 - KULIAH PENGURUS
Kuis Kuliah 4
13.00 SKILL LAB BLOK
LT. 1
13.00 -
14.00
Tugas Kelompok Pembimbing
14.00 -
15.00
08.00 -
09.00
09.00 -
10.00
10.00 -
11.00
11.00 -
Jumat, PREKLINIK III RSPTN INSTRUKTUR
12.00
16 Juni 12.00 -
2017 13.00
13.00 -
14.00
14.00 -
15.00
08.00 - BCS 2: Skills in communicating with patients: Building RUANG Prof. Dr.dr. I
09.00 relationship KULIAH Nyoman
09.00 - SKILL LAB Mangku
10.00 LT. 1 Karmaya ,
13.00 - RUANG
Diskusi 9 : Komunikasi dengan pasien anak FASILITATOR
14.00 DISKUSI
08.00 -
Belajar Mandiri
09.00
09.00 -
Pleno 8 : Komunikasi mengenai riwayat seksual pasien dr. Hariyasa
10.00
RUANG
10.00 -
Pleno 9 : Komunikasi dengan pasien anak KULIAH Psikologi
11.00
HARI 10 : SKILL LAB
LT. 1 drg. Desak
11.00 - Pleno 10 : Prosedur penulisan surat, catatan, dan konsultasi antar Nyoman Ari
Kamis, bidang keilmuan Susanti,
12.00
M.Kes
22 Juni 12.00 -
Istirahat
2017 13.00
13.00 -
14.00
Tugas Kelompok Pembimbing
14.00 -
15.00
08.00 -
09.00
09.00 -
10.00
10.00 -
11.00
11.00 -
Jumat, PREKLINIK III RSPTN INSTRUKTUR
12.00
23 Juni 12.00 -
2017 13.00
13.00 -
14.00
14.00 -
15.00
Senin,
26 Juni Libur Idul Fitri
2017
Selasa,
27 Juni
2017
Rabu,
28 Juni
2017
Cuti Bersama Idul Fitri
Kamis,
29 Juni
2017
Jumat,
30 Juni
2018
08.00 -
Belajar Mandiri
09.00
09.00 -
Diskusi 12: Komunikasi dalam Promosi Kesehatan Gigi dan Mulut Fasilitator
10.00
10.00 -
Diskusi 13: Breaking Bad News to the Patient and Family Fasilitator
11.00
HARI 12 :
11.00 -
Selasa, Istirahat
12.00
04 Juli drg. Luh
2017 12.00 - Wayan Ayu
Pleno 11: Presentasi dan Diskusi Ilmiah RUANG
13.00 Rahaswanti,
KULIAH Sp.KGA
SKILL LAB
13.00 - LT. 1 drg. I.G.A Ari
Pleno 12: Komunikasi dalam Promosi Kesehatan Gigi dan Mulut
14.00 Widiastuti
14.00 -
Belajar Mandiri
15.00
08.00 -
09.00
09.00 - SKILL LAB
PREKLINIK IV INSTRUKTUR
10.00 LT. 4
10.00 -
HARI 9b : 11.00
11.00 -
Rabu, Istirahat
12.00
05 Juli RUANG
2017 12.00 - KULIAH PENGURUS
Kuis Kuliah 9, 10, 11
13.00 SKILL LAB BLOK
LT. 1
~ PROGRAM PEMBELAJARAN~
The lecture will begin with explanation of the definition, methods, and purposes of
communication, especially as related to the field of medicine. By having a good
communication with the patient, a doctor is more likely to: (1) make an accurate,
comprehensive diagnosis of the patients problem (2) detect the patients emotional distress
(3) have the patient more satisfied with the medical care and less anxious about his/her
problem (4) have the patient agree and follow the advice given. Some studies have shown
that patients preferred doctors who: (1) were warm and sympathetic (2) were easy to talk to
(3) introduced themselves (4) were self-confident (5) listened to the patient and responded
to their verbal cues (6) asked questions that are easily understood and were precise (7) did
not repeat themselves. These basic communication skills of a doctor can be learned and
retained, hence this topic of lecture.
The outcome of the doctor-patient communication is influenced by several factors,
namely factors related to the patient, factors related to the doctor, and factors related to the
environment. Factors related to the patient include physical symptoms, psychological
conditions, and previous and current experiences of medical care. Factors related to the
doctor include past training in communication skills, self-confidence in ability to
communicate, personality, and physical and psychological conditions. The interview
setting/environment requirements include privacy, comfortable surroundings and appropriate
seating arrangement. General guidelines for conducting an interview with a patient are
explained in detail, which include the beginning, main part, and end of the interview. The
most basic skills of communication, which include the skill of questioning, listening, and
facilitating the patient to tell more significant information, are explained. It is important to use
open questions in most parts of the doctor-patient communication to obtain sufficient, clear
and accurate information from the patient. Closed questions are used in certain specific
situations such as in an emergency.
Dr Ratna Saraswati
The review of the system may uncover problems that the patient has overlooked,
particularly in area unrelated to the present illness. Some clinicians do the review of the
system during the physical examination, for example: asking about ear as they examine
them. If the patient has only few symptoms, this combination may be efficient, however in
multiple problem, the flow of history taking and the examination may be disrupted.
Standard series of review of system question including the organ and system below:
general
skin
head, eyes, ears, nose, throat (HEENT)
neck
breast
respiratory
cardiovascular
gastrointestinal
peripheral vascular
urinary
genital
muskuloskeletal
psychiatric
neurologic
hematologic
endocrine
As you gain experience, the yes and no question at the end of the interview will take only
several minutes.
Lecture 4:
PENGANTAR KOMUNIKASI DI BIDANG KEDOKTERAN GIGI
Drg. Ni Kadek Fiora Rena Pertiwi, M. Biomed
Dalam profesi kedokteran, komunikasi dokter-pasien merupakan salah satu kompetensi yang harus
dikuasai dokter gigi. Kompetensi komunikasi menentukan keberhasilan dalam membantu penyelesaian
masalah kesehatan pasien. Selama ini kompetensi komunikasi dapat dikatakan terabaikan, baik dalam
pendidikan maupun dalam praktik kedokteran gigi. Di Indonesia, sebagian dokter merasa tidak mempunyai
waktu yang cukup untuk berbincang-bincang dengan pasiennya, sehingga hanya bertanya seperlunya.
Akibatnya, dokter bisa saja tidak mendapatkan keterangan yang cukup untuk menegakkan
diagnosis dan menentukan perencanaan dan tindakan lebih lanjut. Dari sisi pasien, umumnya pasien merasa
dalam posisi lebih rendah di hadapan dokter (superior-inferior ), sehingga takut bertanya dan bercerita atau
hanya menjawab sesuai pertanyaan dokter saja. Tidak mudah bagi dokter untuk menggali keterangan dari
pasien karena memang tidak bisa diperoleh begitu saja. Perlu dibangun hubungan saling percaya yang
dilandasi keterbukaan, kejujuran dan pengertian akan kebutuhan, harapan, maupun kepentingan masing-
masing. Dengan terbangunnya hubungan saling percaya, pasien akan memberikan keterangan yang benar
dan lengkap sehingga dapat membantu dokter dalam mendiagnosis penyakit pasien secara baik dan memberi
obat yang tepat bagi pasien. Komunikasi yang baik dan berlangsung dalam kedudukan setara (tidak superior-
inferior ) sangat diperlukan agar pasien mau/dapat menceritakan sakit/keluhan yang dialaminya secara jujur
dan jelas. Komunikasi efektif mampu mempengaruhi emosi pasien dalam pengambilan keputusan tentang
rencana tindakan selanjutnya, sedangkan komunikasi tidak efektif akan mengundang masalah
It is important to allow the patient to explain their cultural backgrounds, values, beliefs and
expectations when these may be relevant to the consultation. Heightened awareness of the
cultural issues can help you make a more accurate assessment of the patient's behavior,
improve your professional relationship with the patient, and decide proper treatment.
The doctor needs to accept other people's cultural and racial ideas as different, but
equally important. Important issues can be overlooked if either the doctor or the patient fear
misunderstanding and rejection of cultural values.
The patients may be part of a particular culture, but they will have adopted some
aspects of it and rejected others. The doctor must carefully assess each patient's individual
and cultural needs before deciding on an appropriate treatment.
Dr. Ratnayanti
At some point, perhaps in the same interview or perhaps in a subsequent one, there will be
a need to explain and discuss with the patient what has been found and what investigations
and treatment are planned. It is important to remember that most treatment involves the
cooperation of the patient. The way by which the information is given has been shown in a
number of studies to have a major effect on the patient care. Certain skills are involved in
giving information which doctor may not be aware of. Firstly, more is needed than simply
telling what is wrong and what should be done. Secondly, it is often wrong to assume that
patients are not capable of understanding explanation of their medical problem because of
lack of knowledge. Thirdly, it is wrong to assume that patient will become anxious if the
details of their problem and its management are explained to them. There is considerable
evidence now that the majority of patients want to know what is wrong with them even if the
news is not good.
Before giving information, try to find out what the patient already knows about his/her
problem and its possible treatment. Give important information first using short words or
short sentences and the information must be specific. Finally at the end of interview, ask the
patient to summarize what has been agreed.
Penulisan surat rujukan atau konsultasi adalah bagian yang penting dalam
penatalaksanaan pasien oleh seorang dokter/dokter gigi yang legal. Untuk dapat menulis
surat rujukan/ konsultasi seorang dokter gigi harus teregistrasi, tersertifikasi, dan memiliki
Surat Ijin praktek. Surat konsul dan rujukan merupakan komponen medikolegal yang harus
disertakan sebagai arsip dalam rekam medik pasien. Arsip ini dapat digunakan sebagai bahan
bukti dalam perkara hokum yang berhubungan dengan ketepatan tindakan penatalaksanaan
pasien. Hindari penggunaan tinta korektor (tipp-ex) dalam penulisan rujukan/konsul, karena
dapat diasosiasikan dengan upaya pemalsuan data. Bagaimana penulisan surat
rujukan/konsul akan dibahas dalam topic perkuliahan ini. Pemahaman ini sangat dibutuhkan
bagi seorang calon dokter gigi. Terdapat beberapa jenis surat rujukan tergantung pada tujuan
seperti rujukan pasien, specimen,rujukan untuk meminta perawatan dan lain- lain
Presentasi ilmiah yang baik tidak hanya mampu menggambarkan penelitian atau
kerja ilmiah yang dilakukan, namun juga mampu menggambarkan kontribusi peneliti selaku
nara sumber presentasi dalam penelitian atau kerja ilmiah yang dilaporkan.
Manfaat utama dari presentasi ilmiah adalah dapat menjadi wahana untuk berdiskusi secara
langsung antara narasumber dengan pemirsa mengenai topik yang disajikan dan memberi
penekanan terhadap pikiran utama dari penelitian yang dilaporkan. Selain itu, presentasi
ilmiah juga dapat menjadi media bagi narasumber untuk mengamati reaksi pemirsa dan
memberi penjelasan secara langsung saat diskusi.
Kerugian dari presentasi ilmiah adalah narasumber tidak dapat melakukan revisi
secara langsung pada media presentasinya dan hanya memiliki kesempatan untuk
menyampaikan hal yang benar saat presentasi saja. Selain itu, pemirsa juga tidak punya
waktu untuk merujuk pada referensi yang mendasari penelitian atau kerja ilmiah yang
dipresentasikan karena pemirsa harus mengikuti durasi presentasi dari narasumber.
Keberhasilan suatu presentasi tergantung dari kemampuan narasumber untuk menyampaikan
presentasinya dengan baik.
LEARNING TASK
Buat sebuah presentasi singkat (2-3 slides) mengenai patofisiologi karies kemudian
presentasikan saat pleno!
Promosi kesehatan atau pendidikan kesehatan merupakan cabang dari ilmu kesehatan
yang bergerak bukan hanya dalam proses penyadaran masyarakat, pemberian dan
peningkatan pengetahuan masyarakat tentang tentang kesehatan semata, akan tetapi di
dalamnya terdapat usaha untuk memfasilitasi dalam rangka perubahan perilaku masyarakat.
Keberhasilan program promosi kesehatan gigi dan mulut salah satunya adalah alat bantu dan
media-media promosi kesehatan. Media dan alat peraga memegang peranan penting dalam
kegiatan promosi kesehatan gigi dan mulut. Alat peraga dan media yang tepat akan
membantu dalam melakukan penyuluhan, agar pesan-pesan kesehatan dapat disampaikan
lebih jelas, sehingga masyarakat sasaran dapat menerima dan mengerti pesan orang tersebut
dengan jelas.
In the practice of medicine, breaking bad news is often inevitable. Good patients cure or
successful surgery on a benign tumor does not pose any problem to tell the patient or
family, but to tell a patient that he/she has cancer or incurable disease is not easy. The
patients expectation and the doctors finding of the disease may not always agree with each
other, and on many occasions they may be contradictive. It is in such a difficult situation that
the doctor most needs to communicate effectively and sensitively with the patient to reach
similar understanding of the disease the patient suffers, and that they have to work together
to deal with the problem. The need to build good doctor-patient relationship on one hand
and the evidence of the disease on the other hand shape the main outcome of the doctor-
patient communication. It may not be sufficient to have the relationship based on equality or
partnership alone. In the case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in which
psychological disorder develops in the patient/ family or even the doctor, the communication
outcome of both sides may be decreased significantly.
Most studies on communication concerning imparting bad news have been focused on
how the patients or their families should cope with the particular bad news, but not on the
process or techniques of doctors on how to break the bad news. To some doctors who
are gifted with good personality and stable emotion, communication is natural, but to most
other doctors effective communication has to be taught and practiced continuously.
Communication skills, therefore, must be taught in all levels of medical training.
To break bad news properly needs several stages, starting with conditioning and
building a good rapport with the patient and family. This communication must involve
honesty, truth, empathy & sympathy, openness, collaboration to be effective and sensitive.
To break bad news the doctor should plan and summarize the news to convey. Doctors
have to set the un-interrupted agenda in a good physical atmosphere (privacy, comforting
room) and tell the patient or family the truth in an easy language. How much the patient or
the family should know is another thing to consider and plan. Who should be told first, the
patient, the spouse, or the family? Although medicine is universal and crosses beyond
cultural boundaries, different medical cultures do exist and the proper way of how doctors
should impart the bad news is different from culture to culture. On observing the human
rights, it is the patient who should know the news first before others. Telling bad news
should be direct, but the doctor must be able to consider the verbal and non verbal
reactions of the patient and family, and judge how much to tell at one session to avoid
The quality of patient doctor or patient therapist relationship is crucial to the practice
of medicine. The capacity to develop an effective relationship requires a solid
appreciation of the complexities of human behavior and a rigorous education in the
techniques of talking and listening to people. To diagnose, manage, and treat an ill
person, doctors and therapists must learn to listen. They need the skills of active
listening, which means listening both to what they and the patient are saying and to the
undercurrents of the unspoken feelings between them.
An effective relationship is characterized by good rapport. Rapport is the
spontaneous, conscious feeling of harmonious responsiveness that promotes the
development of a constructive therapeutic alliance. It implies an understanding and trust
between the doctor and the patient. Frequently, the doctor is the only person to whom
the patients can talk about things that they cannot tell anyone else. Most patients trust
their doctors to keep secrets, and this confidence must not be betrayed. Patients who
feel that someone knows them, understands them, and accepts them find that a source
of strength. In his essay, Caring for the Patient, Francis Peabody, M.D. (1881-1927), a
talented teacher and clinician, wrote: The good physician knows his patients through
and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy, and understanding
must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which
forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities
of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring
for the patient.
Different patient types and special situations are discussed in this topic, for example
how we communicate and show empathy to a sad or weeping patients, silent, quite,
angry, aggression, and dispute each others.
LEARNING TASKS
Day 1
Basic concepts of communication
with patient and family
Learning Task:
1. In your opinion, what has caused the low patients satisfaction regardless of
dr. Mades excellent expertise?
2. What are the purposes of communicating in general? How do you relate
them with the context of doctor-patient interview?
3. In your opinion, is it necessary or not necessary to study communication
skills in your medical education? Explain your answer clearly!
4. What is the most suitable seating arrangement for a doctor-patient interview?
Explain why.
5. It is said that to have a good beginning of the interview with patient will give a
profound effect on the good outcome of the interview. How do you make such a good
beginning of the interview?
6. Why do you use open questions in most part, especially at the beginning, of
the interview with the patient? Give examples of open questions!
7. Discuss about all the key elements of listening skills and give examples of
various ways to prove that you are listening attentatively to your patient!
8. Explain about the most important things to do at the beginning, main part,
and end of the interview with the patent!
9. How can family of the patient help in the diagnosis and care of the patients
problem?
Day 2
Basic concepts of history
School of Dentistry Faculty of Medicine Udayana
taking University 24
Study Guide Communication in
Dentistry 2017
Dr Ratna Saraswati
1. When performing history taking of your patient, how would you determine the scope
of your question?
2. What kind of relevant personal data that you need to identify your patient at the first
time?
3. Give examples of chief complaint (try to have different one for each student)
4. Identify the information that you need to ask from your patient, regarding:
a. the present illness
b. the patient past history
c. the family history
d. the personal and social history
Day 3
Review of The Systems
Dr Ratna Saraswati
1. List some problem that you need to ask while reviewing of each system below:
a. general
b. skin
c. head, eyes, ears, nose, throat (HEENT)
d. neck
e. breast
f. respiratory
g. cardiovascular
h. gastrointestinal
i. peripheral vascular
j. urinary
k. genital
l. muskuloskeletal
m. psychiatric
n. neurologic
o. hematologic
p. endocrine
Day 4
Skills in communicating with
patients: Initiating the session
and Gathering Information 25
School of Dentistry Faculty of Medicine Udayana University
Study Guide Communication in
Dentistry 2017
Scenario
Wawan then visited another doctor two days later because his complaint was not relieved.
He went to dr. Sagita which practice about 2 blocks away from the first doctor. The doctor
was friendly and appealing. The consultation also went well. But unfortunately she
dominated the conversation. Several times Wawan wanted to explain his complaint in detail,
but he hardly had chance to speak or cut the doctors words. He was sprayed with
questions by the doctor such as what is the problem? Since when? Is he has stuffy nose?
Did he take any medication? And other questions. Everything was asked so quickly and he
felt just like filling out a questionnaire.
Learning Task
1. In above scenario which step is not properly carried out by the doctor?
2. In gathering information there are several components should be done. Mention
those components!
3. Give example of expression of each component in gathering information!
4. In gathering information section, there are several key steps which differentiate
patient centered interview with doctor centered interview consultation. Mention the
key steps!
ROLE PLAY
General Instruction
1) Prepare the role play session; the role play is preferable in Bahasa. One student
play as the doctor, the other as a patient and an observer. Use the scenario or case
provided for this role play session. The tutor will observe the role play.
a. The doctor have to initiate the session
b. The observer and tutor observe and prepare the feedback based on Calgary
Cambridge Observation Guide (CCOG).
2) After the role play :
a. The doctor should make a self reflection on their own performance
Day 5
Skills in communicating with
patients: Building relationship
2. After the examination, the doctor and patient sat back to their sit. How is it doc? How
is my condition? The doctor kept silent for a while. He frowned his forehead and laid
his head back then took a deep breath. He took a very thick book and opened the
page in a hurry.........
3. At the end, the doctor wrote a prescription. He still checked his watch once in while.
Mam, dont worry about it. Here is the prescription, you can get the drug at the
pharmacy. Take it as instructed. If something happen regarding your illness, you can
contact me at this phone number. Said the doctor while giving his bussinesscard....
Questions:
1. What are your impressions in general to situation (1), (2) and(3)?
2. Try to criticize thoroughly about:
a. non-verbal communication and its meaning in those situations
b. the accepting response of the doctor to his patient
c. the empathy of the doctor
d. the doctors support
e. the involvement of the patient
ROLE PLAY : BUILDING RELATIONSHIP
Building the relationship runs in parallel to the other task of the interview. This task is easily
taken for granted or forgotten, but this task is an essential means of achieving all three
Scenario
You are now working in a private foundation that serves the high risk population for
HIV/AIDS, especially the injection drug users. Your job is to take history and give
explanation about the disease. Today, a 27 year-old male patient comes. He had been
tested for the HIV and now brings his laboratory result. Now you are given the test result
and ought to explain the test result to the patient. Please do a role play to explain the
laboratory result to the patient which stated that he is infected by the HIV.
Day 6
Skills in communicating with
patients: Explanation and planning,
Closing the session
Dr. Ratnayanti
Learning Task
Case
A male patient, Gede, 58 yo complained of flank pain and nausea. After the clinical
radiography and laboratory investigation he was found to suffer from hydronephrosis due to
ureter stone. The doctor also suspected he had hepatoma (liver malignancy). At that
moment the doctor only gave supportive therapy and suggest further investigation for
hepatoma; The doctor also planned a surgical procedure to remove the stone if the
condition of patient permitted. The patient complained mostly about the flank pain and
wished to get the surgery to be done as soon as possible. But, after several weeks the
surgery had not been scheduled, in the mean time, patient condition was getting worse. The
patients family then complained to the doctor and hospital because they think the patient is
neglected for not being scheduled for the surgery. They suspected the doctor/hospital treat
them so because they were supported by government health insurance for poor people and
unable to pay for the expensive procedure.
1. Please discuss about the reason of patient and family dissatisfaction to the
doctor/hospital service regardless administration and facilities aspect!
2. Please discuss about the use of medical term during explanation and planning to the
patient and family!
Case
Kocong, 15 yo boy, had been referred to the central public hospital with Steven Johnson
Syndrome. He developed painful, massive bulae all over his skin after injection of antibiotic
by a doctor in the private practice. The parents of the boy planned to sue the doctor
because they believed there was malpractice in his son case.
5. What did the doctor missed to do during the management of the patient on the case
above?
6. Please discuss and give example of contracting in closing the session part of
anamnesis.
Day 7
Breaking bad news to patient and
family
1. How do you plan and summarize before telling the bad news to the patient?
2. How do you judge the verbal and non-verbal cues of the patient and family when
being told about the bad news?
3. How do you maintain your professional authority while breaking the bad news?
4. How does PTSD influence ones reaction to bad news?
5. Please discuss how should you deliver bad news in the cases below!
Day 8
Basic Clinical Skill
Role Play
Day 9
Communication with patient
from different cultural
backgrounds
Case 1
So you are Mr. ? Did I pronounce that properly?
How do you prefer to be addressed?
Question: How do you prepare yourself to address the issue in those questions?
Case 2
I need to ask you some questions about your health. I'll go through them, and I would like you
to answer 'Yes' or 'No' to the questions. Afterwards, we can discuss how you are doing with
the treatment and if you have any worries or questions.
Question: Do you think this type of interview is appropriate for common patients from Asian
society? Explain your answer!
Case 3
Case 4
In an emergency situation, a patient from a strict religious sect refused to receive blood
transfusion.
Question: As the doctor in charge of the Emergency Room, how do you respond to this
patients attitude? Explain your reasons!
Case 5
Doctor: I'm sorry that your daughter has to be examined by a man, but I'm afraid I am the
only doctor on duty tonight. I think she needs to be seen straight away since she is in bad
pain, so I shall have to examine her myself. I really think we have no choice at this stage. If
possible, we can try to arrange for a female doctor to follow-up, if that is necessary.
Question: What seems to be the doctors concern related to the cultural aspects of this
patient that made the doctor use the above expressions? Explain your answer!
Case 6
In a particular case, you may need an interpreter because your patient has little knowledge
of English, and it can be a relief for the patient to speak in their native language. Moreover,
an interpreter from the patient's own culture can identify the crucial issues and give comfort
and support.
Day 10
Communication approach with
in psychiatry
Day 11
Specific communication
approach to obstetric patient
Dr Hariyasa Sanjaya
The students should discuss on how to deal with the patient in each of following
situations:
Situation 1:
A woman with nine months old pregnancy with complaint of having pains since the
last four hours and already discharging a bloody show (blood and mucus from her vagina).
In brief, the mother is in the process of giving birth to a baby.
Task:
What should be your communication approach in situation above?
Situation 2:
A fourteen-year-old-girl complains of having been raped by her senior fellow
students in the schools rest room. She is suffered from pain because of some chafed and
bruised thigh, the sign of past violence.
Task:
How is your communication approach (examination scenario) in situation above?
Situation 3:
A female student is suspected to have benign ovary tumor. She is extremely worried
about the possibility of having cancer.
Task:
How should be your examination scenario and approach in situation above?
Situation 4:
A sixty-year-old woman apparently having prolapsed uterus.
Task:
How should you deal or approach in situation above?
Situation 5:
A fifteen-year-old girl admitting never had sexual intercourse but obviuosly found to
be three months pregnant.
Task:
How should be your communication approach?
Situation 6:
A female patient with complaints suggestive of sexual transmitted disease.
Task:
How should be your communication approach in above situation?
Situation 7:
A girl presenting with hematome of her labia majora because of falling in a motor
bike accident.
Task:
How should be your approach in above situation?
Situation 8:
A man was depressed since he complained chronic sexual impotence.
Task:
How should your communication approach in above situation?
Day 12
Communication with pediatric
patient and parent
Dr Siadi Purniti
A mother from a village, not having finished Elementary School, brings her 6-month-
old baby to the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic of Sanglah Hospital, with a referral letter
from a Puskesmas (Public Health Center) doctor. The mother does not understand
why the baby is being referred to Sanglah Hospital. The doctor of the Puskesmas
only stated that the baby is suffering from Congenital Heart Disease.
The students task
Please discuss in the small group how the doctor in the Puskesmas should ideally
have explained to the patients mother about the disease and the reasons to refer
the patient to Sanglah Hospital.
Day 13
Writing letters, notes, and CV
Dr. Yuliana
Day 14
Basic concepts of scientific
writing 1
Instruction
Scan the word list, and underline the words unfamiliar to you. Discuss the unfamiliar words
with your peers and group, and find out their real meaning (s).
Day 15
Presentation & discussion in
scientific meeting
Prof Dr Adiatmika
Day 16
Basic concepts of scientific
writing 2
II. Words carelessly interchanged: Choose one of the words, within the parentheses
to make the best sense in the sentence, and indicate your choice by underlining it.
i. The response was blocked by phentolamine but was not (affected, effected) by
propranolol.
ii. The digoxin (amount, concentration, content, level) was increased from 0.5 to 2.5
mg/ml.
iii. Preganglionic stimulation (enhances, increases) norepinephrine release from
terminals within the superior cervical ganglion.
iv. Increased knowledge of cardiac muscle function has greatly (enhanced,
improved) our ability to detect and quantify disorders of myocardial contraction.
v. Treatment with methylprednisolone after the lesion is established significantly
(enhances, speeds) recovery.
vi. At frequent (intervals, periods) we measured pH, PO2, and PCO2 in arterial
blood, and during each (interval, period) of study we measured pulmonary blood
flow two or three times.
vii. We studied the responses of the following (parameters, variables): heart rate,
cardiac output, oxygen consumption, and systemic vascular resistance.
viii. Seventy-five percent nitrous oxide (represents, is) a sub-anesthetic
concentration in the dog.
III. Change the structure of the following sentences, so that the core message
becomes more explicit or direct.
IV. For the following 4 pairs of sentences, indicate your choice by putting a cross
(X) either on (A) or (B).
(A) These results are similar to the results of previous studies.
(B) These results are similar to previous studies.
There are three different theories put forward for the very slow relaxation of catch
muscles of molluscs. One theory holds that catch is due to some unusual property of
myosin in these muscles that produces a slow rate of detachment. In this theory,
paramyosin would have no special role beyond that of providing the long scaffolding
on which the myosin is positioned as well as the mechanical strength for the large
tensions developed. The second theory holds that tension is developed by actin-
myosin interaction but is maintained by paramyosin interactions. Because the thick
filaments are of limited length, interaction would have to occur through fusion of thick
filaments. A third theory to which I subscribe, pictures a structural change in the
Brief message of
Topic sentence: .............................................................................................................
Supporting sentence 1:...................................................................................................
Supporting sentence 2: ..................................................................................................
Supporting sentence 3:...................................................................................................
This is a ................ paragraph. (Starting with ................................ followed by.............)
Dr Oka Negara
During small group discussion, the students are expected to describe the following:
7. Some problems that possibly be faced during dispensing health information to the
community!
STUDENT PROJECTS
STUDENT PROJECT 1
Reference : Silverman, J., Kurtz, S., Draper, J. 1999. Skills for Communicating with
Patients. Oxon United Kingdom, Radcliffe Medical Press. Chap.1; pp. 5 15.
You should write down the answers of the questions below on your student
workbook and should be finished and signed by facilitator in the following SGD.
Questions :
1. What is Calgary-Cambridge Observation Guide? What is the benefit of this guide?
2. There are four main problems that addressed by this observation guide. Please
mention those problems and explain them!
3. Mention the structure of this observation guide! Please explain why such structure
being chosen!
4. Mention the expanded framework of this observation guide! What do you think about
that framework?
5. The structure will give advantages for the student. Please mention these
advantages!
6. There are seventy individual skills that should be mastered. Could we make it
simpler? Is it possible to apply these all skills into daily practice?
7. Each learner should find their own way in order to assimilate these new skills and
behaviours into practice. What does it meant?
STUDENT PROJECT 2
Students have been given material about basic concepts of history taking and review of the
systems. The task for student project is to make brief summary using the frame work in
history taking and review of the systems. The summary should contain important related
informations that need to be elicited from a patient with certain complaint/disease. Each
students could choose 1 symptom/disease of interest as listed below, but every group
should have all summaries of symptoms/diseases in the end. These summaries will be
helpfull during role playing in Basic Clinical Skill, not as your interview guideline but as
internal thinking process to reveal the health problem of your patient. The summary should
be written on your workbook and will be evaluated and signed by facilitator. The Result of
Student Project will also be evaluated by the lecture in the student project presentation as
appointed in the schedule.
Example:
Dengue Fever
What/Main complaint: fever
When/Onset: more than 5 days if not treated
How/Chronologic: body temperature suddenly rising up..
Etc....
List of symptoms/diseases:
1. Dengue Hemorraghic Fever
2. Hypertension
3. Lung Tuberculosis
4. Anemia
5. Chest pain
You may look for the information in the library or through the internet. You could refer to
reliable sites to obtain information regarding the symptoms/diseases above.
STUDENT PROJECT 3
Students have already been taught about patient oriented model of medical interview which
consists of five basic steps. The aim of student project 3 is to train several skills, not only
communication skill but also, not less important skills to our professional future, such as,
team work, perfomance skills, and creativity.
Selected groups (the appointed groups are listed in the time table supplement) should make
an audiovisual recording of medical interview by following the instruction given. You
have lot of time for this project, so manage properly. The recording should be a complete
interview. Individual skills for each step, initiating the session, gathering information, building
relationship, explain to the patient, and closing the session, should be explicitly performed.
Instructions:
1) In group you should make a scenario about an ideal medical interview between the
doctor and the patient. The scenario should comprise all processess from initiating
the session until closing the session. Your group may freely decide which case or
symptom will be chosen, but it is preferable to use Bahasa Indonesia in the play. The
maximum duration of the video is 15 minutes.
2) The scenario should contain sentences from each individual skills needed.
Example:
a. Greeting: Selamat pagi, Bu Amat!
b. Introduce your role : Saya dokter muda Amin, saya ditugaskan untuk
melakukan wawancara dengan ibu
3) You may decide how many personal characters will be included in the scenario, and
all should be played by the students. You may add the family from the patient, or
mother from a child patient or other related roles.
4) The scenario should be collected to and discussed with your facilitator. After finished,
you may proceed to the recording session. You are allowed to explore your creativity
in editing the record using multimedia software available.
You should collect the record in a CD to secretary of Medical Communication after project
presentation on the pointed date. The groups should prepare for this presentation and
receive the feedback from the audience.
STUDENT PROJECT 4
You should write letters/notes and CV (Curriculum Vitae) based on the cases provided in
your learning task. Your letters and CV must be typed and saved in CD or flash disk and will
be displayed and discussed at student project presentation. You are also required to make
the written form (printed) on worksheet 8 in your workbook that will be signed by your
facilitator.
In writing letters/notes and CV, you may look at the samples in the reading resources but
you must use your imagination about information that you think are necessary to mention,
according to your purpose of writing them. Remember that business letter to a colleague, a
1. Write a referral letter to Dr. Steven Chow, senior Urologist at Mount Elizabeth
Hospital, Singapore to request for further investigation and treatment to a male patient,
aged 64 years, with history of chronic kidney failure due to stones in both kidneys.
Relevant ultrasonography, blood and urine tests have been done in Denpasar and you
want to send the tests results with your referral letter.
2. Write a letter to Dr Amman (Radiologist), Jalan Sudirman no.12, Denpasar. Your
request is for a general abdominal ultrasonography including the kidneys, for a male
patient, aged 55 years, living on Jalan Buton no. 18, Denpasar 80223, with a history of
acute colicky abdominal and flank pain.
3. A male patient, born in 1964, living on Jalan Sumatra 34 Denpasar, sees you for a
medical consultation. Now you have examined him and found him suffering from a
disease with fever, cough and shortness of breath. Due to his illness, you think this
patient needs a rest for three days. Please write a note regarding his being ill and
needing a rest as mentioned above.
4. Suppose you were a graduate of Udayana University Faculty of Medicine since five
years ago with experience working in two hotel clinics. Now you want to get a new and
better job in the Emergency Department of International Hospital in Denpasar. To
support your application, you need to write your CV. Please write your CV appropriately
by including as much information as you can imagine that you think are relevant to your
purpose.
STUDENT PROJECT 5
You should write an abstract of a review or research article in English either for English
class or Regular class. The abstract consist of 500 words maximum and should be your
original work, though translation from article in Bahasa is still permitted. This student project
is intended to give practice experience in constructing a scientific manuscript, therefore,
please avoid plagiarism due to lack of learning benefit by doing so. The hardcopy of the
abstract should be attached in your student workbook and handed to the lecture at the
plenary session of the 2nd day lecture of Basic Concepts of Scientific Writing. Soft copy is
also needed to be presented during the plenary session.
STUDENT PROJECT 6
Seminar Simulation
Students of class A and B should arrange a joint seminar simulation on the pointed date in
the study schedule. The seminar may not be about a certain topic, but should be health-
related issues. Class A and B should appoint, well in advance before the session, 4
volunteers each. Two students must prepare a topic of medicine-related issue to present
in the seminar simulation, 1 student will be the master of ceremony (MC), 1 student will be
the moderator, and another student will responsible for the audio visual system. Therefore,
there will be 2 presenters, 1 MC, 1 moderator, and 1 AVA technician from each class.
The rest of the students will be acting as the participants; and should prepare with at least
one question to ask to each presenter. Seminar simulation for Class B should be performed
in English and for Class A in Bahasa. The detail schedule for the seminar is provided in the
time table section.
STUDENT PROJECT 7
~ SELF ASSESSMENTS ~
Building Relationship
1. Building the relationship is said like a cement that binds the consultation together.
What does it means?
2. What probably the cause of patient disastifaction with the doctor-patient
relationship?
3. According to Hall et al. (1988) the patient satisfaction was related to .............?
4. There are about three skills for building the relationship: non-verbal communication,
developping rapport and involving the patient. Try to describe those all.
5. What do you mean by non-verbal communication?
6. Differentiate verbal and non-verbal communication!
2. Explain about giving information from the view of the person/doctor giving the
information.
9. Give examples, in your own word, about how to communicate during medical
interview session. Each student should write his/her own examples on the the blank
rows below the communication check list items provided in the appendix 1.
Appendix 1
No Skills
Initiating the session
1. GREET patient and obtain patients name
5. NEGOTIATES AGENDA taking both patients and doctors perspective into account
Gathering Information
6. ENCOURAGE PATIENT TO TELL STORY of problems from when first started to the present in own words
(clarifies reason for presenting now)
7. LISTEN ATTENTIVELY, allows patient to complete statement without interruption and leaves space for patient
to think before answering or go on after pausing
8. FACILITATES PATIENTS RESPONSES VERBALLY AND NON VERBALLY (use encouragement, silence,
repetition, paraphrasing, interpretation)
12. EXPLORES CONCERNS (including worries, effects on lifestyle) regarding each problem
15. SUMMARIZES AT THE END OF A SPECIFIC LINE OF INQUIRY to verify own interpretation of what patient
has said, to ensure no important data were omitted
16. PROGRESSES, USING TRANSLATON STATEMENTS; includes rationale for next session
BUILDING RELATIONSHIP
18. USING APPROPRIATE NON-VERBAL BEHAVIOUR
Demonstrates appropriate nonverbal behaviour:
Provides support:
Deals sensitively:
Explains rationale :
Involves patient:
Negotiates plan:
Offers choices:
Safety nets:
Final check:
References:
Kurtz SM, Silverman JD, Draper J (1998) Teaching and Learning Communication
Skills in Medicine. Radcliffe Medical Press (Oxford)
Silverman JD, Kurtz SM, Draper J (1998) Skills for Communicating with Patients.
Radcliffe Medical Press (Oxford)
Curriculum mapping
~ REFERENCES ~