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Message: <blockquote data-quote="annelise" data-source="post: 713280" data-attributes="member: 74652">Interesting article/abstract, and I agree with above posters about the increasing challenges doctors will be facing when confronted with patients which may know more about their individual disease than the doctor. In this context I thought it might be interesting to tell that I have been screened to participate in a 'patients as coeducators' programme at the main University Hospital in Denmark where graduate soon to-be doctors get 'hands-on' with real patients (and not mock-up situations).This is mainly a programme about communication skills – doctor to patient – and not especially diabetes. ( We are usually four with conditions of T1, T2, heart or Col in a team).I recently went in for an all day evaluation meeting of the past semester with all patient-coeducators where we learned that the med students had given high scores to the course (mandatory for the med students).In the course, there are first individual confrontations in a make-believe consultation ('doctor-soon-to-be' facing a 'real' patient – in my case playing the role of a newly diagnosed, somewhat scared and bewildered Type 2). After each 'consultation', we will give direct and as far as possible constructive face-to-face feed back to the 'doctor', i.e. your take on what you thought went well, and what you think might be improved regarding communication skills. - Then there will be a plenum where we tell our real story about personal experiences in doctor-patient communication situations as we know it from our real life situations. - Mine have often elicited somewhat incredulous laughs! How could a doctor do or say this? – But I think that they take it to heart. – I will stop here – already too long – but could write pages and pages … Annelise - by the way, all sessions are videotaped (somewhat scary for me at first as I am usually rather a private person!) - But then, OK for me if it will help future doctors to get better communication skills.</blockquote>

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