pragmatic study of the communication skills in doctor-patient discourse

Abstract

As people rely heavily on sharing information, they need to increase focus on having good communication skills. Hence, poor communication between doctors and patients has a direct and indirect impact on the quality of medical care provided to patients. This study focuses on communication skills and discourse tact in diagnosis because of their wonderful role in strengthening the doctor-patient relationships. It was conducted by collecting the medical discourse by only visiting al-Sadr Teaching Hospital as it includes the largest number of doctors in Najaf. It further emphasized the incorporation of some elements of pragmatics into medical curricula for their great communicative benefits in creating collaborative interlocutors, specifically, Grice’s (1975) Cooperative Principle and Ayeloha’s (2019) types of discourse devices. The study aims to identify the strong and weak points in doctor-patient discourse, evaluate the linguistic tools and communication strategies used in this discourse to assess the efficiency of the interaction between doctors and patients, and highlight the impact of the integrative curriculum adopted by University of Kufa on doctors’ communication with patients in comparison with the traditional curriculum taught at Jabir Ibin Hayyan Medical University.

Developing a guided discovery model based on reflective teaching to improve students' short essay writing skills

“…Revisions were made according to suggestions from validators and practitioners on model books, lecturer books, and student books based on Discovery-based Reflective Teaching. The product revision results at this stage are in the form of a prototype II model of Guided Discovery Learning based on valid Reflective learning and the device is ready to be tested on a limited basis (Erbas et al, 2021;Al-Mansori & Reishaan, 2022).…”