Improving Patient-Physician Communication

Study is an important subject that need a person who is getting and updating the information every period. Especially, if you are a medical student you need to always update your information to know how to diagnose or treat the patient. In the previous blocks, we studied a very useful scientific information whether about immunity or physiology or even the basic information, which improved my knowledge a lot. In addition, patient-physician communication is an integral part of clinical practice. When done well, such communication produces a therapeutic effect for the patient. For that, In block 1.4, we studied “health psychology“ and “communication skills” that I got benefits from them because the doctor should use the communication skills to deal with the way of patient thinking as using his knowledge to deal with the patient's body to get effective diagnosis and treatment.
Knowledge will be very useful and helpful for me in the future as a doctor. Also my way as a doctor, if I was empathetic, friendly and not aggressive this will make me a good doctor and I will have a good reputation between my patients. On the other hand, I see that my weak point is language. I now that as a doctor I will face many nationalities. For that I may talk Arabic or English with my patient. Arabic is my native language but I need to improve my English because I need to communicate well with my foreign patient. I think everyone should give himself feedback to know what went poorly and what went well and why. In the end, I’m going to keep improving and do my best to became a good