Students ’ experiences with a longitudinal skills training program on breaking bad news: a follow-up study

Every doctor, some more than others, has to break bad news (BBN) to patients. Inadequately broken bad news is associated with increased stress and anxiety, poor adaptation to the bad news and reduced health outcomes in patients, but also affects the doctor-patient relationship [1 –3]. Additionally, poorly delivered bad news can also contribute to anxiety and burnout in doctors [4]. This stresses the relevance to include BBN skills in the teaching of all future doctors, and gain insight in how this influences students.

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - May 7, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M.H. Brouwers, H. Bor, R. Laan, C. van Weel, E. van Weel-Baumgarten Source Type: research