Communication Skills

Rick Body introduces St Emlyn's medical fiction series: imagined future scenarios intended to stretch how we think about healthcare. The launch post explains the idea behind Med-Fi and links to the first story, exploring chest pain assessment in the future.

Leah Flanagan, Mohammed Hamza and Cian McDermott share ten ways they used digital tools to organise work and learning in 2021. The post covers planning, presentations, collaboration, keeping up with research and limiting distraction, with an emphasis on adapting tools to your own workflow.

How do patients want clinicians to explain COVID-19 tests, uncertainty and the possibility of dying? In this February 2021 podcast, Rick Body speaks with patient representatives Graham Prestwich and Val Tate about communication through PPE and what matters to patients and families.

A June 2020 appraisal of the RECOVERY dexamethasone preprint in hospitalised patients with COVID-19. The review examines mortality findings in patients receiving oxygen or ventilation, recruitment and generalisability, and the difficulties of assessing important research first announced through a press release.

How can graphics help staff absorb unfamiliar procedures during a crisis? Nick Smith explains visual communication and cognitive load, sharing a clinical procedures guide, icons and practical design ideas developed for redeployed and newly qualified doctors during the first COVID-19 wave.

How do diagnostic decisions shape emergency care and hospital admission? This St Emlyn’s Live video and podcast introduces the future of diagnostics, placing the importance of making a diagnosis at the centre of the discussion.