The Oxford Practice Skills Course Ethics, Law, and Communication Skills in Health Care Education

by Hope, R. A.; Fulford, K. W. M.; Yates, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780192627544
• ISBN10: 0192627546
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ethics, communication skills, and the law ('practice skills') are important in all aspects of modern health care. Doctors and nurses must be sensitive to the ethical aspects of their work and understand the legal framework within which clinical decisions are made. Well developed skills ofcommunication, with patients, their relatives and other members of the clinical team, are a key feature of good clinical practice Until recently, the important of practice skills has been relatively neglected in health care education. This situation is changing. The UK General Medical Council, for example, has recently identified three aspects as part of the core of the medical course, and the move to degree courses innursing has led to an increasing focus of practice skills in nurse education. The Oxford Practice Skills Project (OPSP) team have developed a course, within the University of Oxford Clinical School, which covers the teaching of practice skills in an integrated manner. This course is widely recognized as one of the most systematic developments of education in these areas. This manual describes the OPSP course in detail and provides teaching materials. Although developed initially for medical students, it should be helpful to all those involved in teaching ethics, communication skills, and law in health care. Each Seminar is described in detail Tutors' guides are provided Student handouts are included Contains guidelines for introducing 'practice skills' into a busy clinical curriculum Includes over forty case histories for teaching and examination Gives details of many useful sources and resources Details a variety of teaching methods together with their advantages and disadvantages Provides an ethics teaching toolkit for clinical teachers new to this area Readers are welcome to photocopy any part of this manual for their own teaching

Table of Contents

Background and overview

Syllabus

The Practice Skills Seminars

Introduction to the Practice Skills Course and tutorials in General Communication Skills

Introduction to English and Welsh law

Introduction to medical ethics

"Do not resuscitate"

Confidentiality

"Have we got a consent form?"

Treating patients without their consent"

We're desperate for a baby": Some ethical issues of assisted reproduction

Anger and aggression in patients and their relatives

Practice skills when working with children: Consent to treatment and child abuse

Rationing healthcare - ethical issues

Tutorials in General Communication Skills

Examination and assessment

Introducing a course into the Curriculum

Teaching methods

Ethics teaching toolkit

Sources and resources

Reading guide

Case vignettes

References

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