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Improving Your Communication Skills

The following tips revolve around communication issues you will likely face when interacting with various medical professionals. These are key skills you can begin to develop now. After reading this section, you should be ready to take the Great American Health Communication Test.

- Interruptions
- Giving information
- Requesting information
- Sympathy or empathy
- Being aware of your own messages
- Beginning the appointment
- Ending the interview
- Controlling the interview
- Uncomfortable topics and questions
- Other tips

 

 

 

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