FOstering the doctoR of the 21st century: education for patient-centered communication Erasmus Project

Project Title

FOstering the doctoR of the 21st century: education for patient-centered communication

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The key problem for all partner countries in FOR21 Consortium is the absence of consistent communication training for future doctors.The Institute of Medicine identifies patient-centered care as one of the essential elements of high quality care. Patients assess the quality of their care largely through their experiences of talking with their physician and they go to practitioners they feel comfortable with. Physicians recognize it is important to acquire new information and technical skills as part of their professional activities, but have paid less attention to learning how to communicate effectively, particularly in challenging situations, such as helping patients make choices, disclosing errors or breaking bad news. They have also not regarded it as a skill to learn. What is needed is significant change in the early training of doctors to embed these new skills sustainably. Above all, the new approaches need to be more patient-centered.FOR21 will start the development of medical curriculum together with educational strategies, methods and tools for building communication competence and social responsibility, aimed to improve doctor-to-patient communication.New system of communication skills training will be introduced into the PC HEIs and will address needed changes in the mode and habits of communication training. Communication Development training Centres (CDCs) will be set up at Partner Universities to train academics to use innovative approaches in their teaching practices and support newly created Patient Centered Communication Skills Programme (PCCSP).PCCSP will bring PC HEIs to transition from lecture-based teaching to learning activities, such as Flipped Classroom, Standardized and Virtual Patients, ICT methods in a fully integrated training regime.Network of CDCs will consistently stimulate curricula of partner and non-partner medical HEIs, to modernise and innovate, in accord with the latest trends in communication competency development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 951234 Eur

Project Coordinator

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• TASHKENT MEDICAL ACADEMY
• NORTH WESTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER I I MECHNIKOV
• TYUMEN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
• SAMARQAND DAVLAT TIBBIYOT INSTITUTI
• OULUN YLIOPISTO
• UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
• ASFENDIYAROV KAZAKH NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY NON COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK COMPANY