Reading list

1. “The Medical Interview- The Three Function Approach” Steven Cohen-Cole- Mosby Year Book 1991 (A good American description of the Three-Function Approach aimed mostly at undergraduates)

2. “Meetings between Experts- An approach to Sharing Ideas in Medical Consultations” Tuckett, Boulton, Olson, Williams, Tavistock Publications (1985)  (An excellent (if difficult to read) and formative British research project).

3. “Collaborative Clinical Education” Westberg and Jason, Spring (1993)

(A brilliant book on teaching in general, published in the USA)

4. “Teaching Communication Skills: A Problem Based Approach” Linda Gask et al, Postgraduate Education for General Practice 1991 vol. 2 number 1 7-15

(An alternative approach to communication skills teaching)

5. “Communication Skills for Medicine” Lloyd and Bor, Churchill-Livingstone 1996  (British book on teaching communication skills to undergraduates)

6. “Communicating with Medical Patients” Stewart and Roter, Sage 1989

(An excellent multi-authored book with excellent chapters on skills, teaching and research from many countries)

7. “The Medical Interview” Lipkin et al Springer-Verlag 1995

( enormous American reference text on the background to skills, teaching and research- very expensive)

8. “Patient-Centred Medicine- Transforming the Clinical Method” Stewart et al Sage Publication 1995

(An excellent introduction to patient-centred medicine and the all-important disease-illness model)

9. “Doctors talking with Patients, Patients talking with Doctors”

Roter and Hall, Auburn House 1992

(An good research-based book on information-giving in particular

10. “Communication and Counselling in Health Care” Riccardi and Kurtz, Charles Thomas 1983 (An early description of the skills based approach that is presented in the Calgary-Cambridge Observation guide)

11. "Skills for Communicating with Patients" Silverman, Kurtz and Draper, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2004 updated second edition

(Our own new book for learners and teachers taking an evidence-based approach to the skills of medical communication.

12. Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine

Kurtz, Silverman and Draper, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2004

(Our second book on how to teach and learn communication skills)

13. “Understanding the Consultation: evidence theory and practice”

Tim Usherwood, Open University Press 1999

14. “What are you feeling Doctor? Identifying and avoiding defensive patterns in the consultation.” John Salinsky and Paul Sackin Radcliffe Medical Press 2000

15 Marrying Content and Process in Clinical Method Teaching: Enhancing the Calgary–Cambridge Guides
Suzanne Kurtz, Jonathan Silverman, John Benson, and Juliet Draper
Acad Med 2003 78: 802-809