Welcome to the Cascading Teaching Communication Skills Website
This website builds on the SkillsCascade website which was developed by the East Anglia Cascade Skills Facilitators in 1999. It was supported by the Eastern Deanery, the content was contributed by the document authors, steered by Drs Julie Draper and Jonathan Silverman. The webmaster was Dr Amrit Takhar.
ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
Who are we:
This website is jointly hosted by the Clinical Communication Skills Theme of the undergraduate curriculum of the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine together with the Eastern Deanery for Postgraduate General Practice Education.
The authors of the website are:
Dr Jonathan Silverman, Associate Clinical Dean And Director of Communication Studies, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
Dr Abayomi McEwen GP, Communication Skills Facilitator, Eastern Deanery and Clinical Communication Skills Teacher, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
Why have we set up this website:
The aim of this website is to promote and support the teaching of communication skills to all health professionals. Over the last 15 years, we have developed extensive expertise in both undergraduate and postgraduate communication skills teaching, based on the Calgary-Cambridge guide and agenda-led outcome-based analysis. Our communication facilitator training programmes in both undergraduate and postgraduate medicine have been highly successful and have generated considerable materials concerning what to teach, how to teach and how to organise a curriculum which we would like to share via this site with interested professionals. We plan to regularly review and update the site’s content and welcome feedback from our visitors.
There deliberate considerable overlap in the materials presented on this site with the two books “Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine” by Suzanne Kurtz, Jonathan Silverman and Julie Draper and “Skills for Communicating with Patients” by Jonathan Silverman, Suzanne Kurtz and Julie Draper, Radcliffe Publishing 2005 and readers are encouraged to explore both sources.
Who would find this useful:
Any health professional or educationalist involved in teaching communication skills will find something useful on visiting this site. As most of our experience is with medical students and doctors, we draw the majority of our information from this area. However as other professionals expand their roles and thus extend the remit of their consultations, we also hope to widen the scope of the site.
Reproducing material from this website:
The material found on this website is copyright to the respective authors of the content. We are very happy indeed for visitors to download material from the site and use it in their teaching. However, we ask you to respect our copyright and to only reproduce material with appropriate referencing to the authors and to this website.
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