| Oral communication skills of international medical graduates: assessing empathy in discourse. | |
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PMID: 20635550 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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We examine a dataset consisting of 11 International Medical Graduates (IMGs) performing an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Our aim is to address questions about the linguistic realization of empathy in the clinical discourse of IMGs and the extent to which OSCE examiners are sensitive to relevant features of the discourse. We analyse three aspects of the dataset as manifestations of empathy: sequential organization to provide reassurance; responsiveness to the simulated patient's lexical choices for emotionally charged words; and the organization of turn-taking in the interaction. Our analysis suggests that in each of these areas it is possible to identify discourse strategies which realize empathy. These strategies are used by IMGs who are good communicators and not used by poor communicators. Our evidence suggests that of the features we examine, the most salient for the examiner is a greater than normal occurrence of transition pauses. We argue that it is only in the area of the organization of conversation that the problems displayed by some IMGs are due to differences in cultural background, and it is therefore significant that the feature we identify as salient comes from this area. |
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Authors:
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Marisa Cordella; Simon Musgrave |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Communication & medicine Volume: 6 ISSN: 1612-1783 ISO Abbreviation: Commun Med Publication Date: 2009 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-07-16 Completed Date: 2010-08-12 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101201068 Medline TA: Commun Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 129-42 Citation Subset: IM |
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School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. marisa.cordella@arts.monash.edu.au |
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Australia Communication* Empathy* Foreign Medical Graduates* Humans Physician-Patient Relations* Psycholinguistics |
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