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Doha
QATAR University College of Medicine (QU-CMED) held a workshop recently aimed to present a contextual model of communication which can be mapped on to professional expertise in an integrated manner.
The workshop also outlined the theoretical and descriptive underpinnings of such an integrated perspective on communicative expertise while considering the challenges of assessment in educational and training settings.
Themed 'A Contextual Model of Healthcare Communication: Challenges for Description and Assessment', the forum brought together healthcare professionals and researchers from several colleges within QU, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q).
Attendees included QU VP for Medical Education and CMED Dean Dr Egon Toft, CMED Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Dr Hossam Hamdy, CMED Head of Basic Medical Science Department Prof Marwan Farouk Abu-Hijleh, and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Assistant Medical Director of Professional Development Dr Ameeta Patel, as well as CMED faculty, staff and students.
The workshop featured a lecture by Prof Srikant Sarangi, director of Danish Institute of Humanities and Medicine (DIHM) at Aalborg University, Denmark, on 'An Overview of Concepts & Themes in Healthcare Communication' and 'Analysing Healthcare Communication Data from a Contextual Perspective'.
Prof Sarangi noted the many challenges facing contemporary healthcare including globalisation and cultural diversity, bureaucratisation, ethical dilemmas, health technology and digitalisation and the coming of age of the expert patient.
The lecture was followed by a Q&A session in which participants fielded questions on issues related to specificities of the Qatari healthcare and discussions related to communication styles in various medical settings and cultures.
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