The Influence of Communication and Relational Education on Radiologists’ Early Posttraining Practice

Coming Out of the Dark: A Curriculum for Teaching and Evaluating Radiology Residents’ Communication Skills Through Simulation

“…Seven of the eight residents agreed that practicing their communication skills boosted their self-confidence and that practicing their communication skills with simulated patient encounters helped them become better doctors. These results echo those found in the literature which states simulation helps improve communication skills and boosts self-confidence in physicians' ability to communicate [9].…”

Voices emerging from the shadows: Radiologic practitioners’ experiences of challenging conversations

“…Where appropriate, as in this study, existing theories or findings from previous research may also guide analysis, so that a more "hybrid" approach is taken, combining some deductive as well as inductive coding [22]. In this way, our analysis was informed by relevant literature on patient-centered radiology, including our own previous work [23,14]. Thematic analysis has been previously applied in healthcare research to analyze qualitative data such as interviews and narratives [24,25].…”

“…Only rare published narratives have described radiologists' actual experiences in this regard [13]. One small study of practicing radiologists who had participated in a communication skills workshop as trainees suggested their ability to implement the skills depended on the culture of professionalism within their practice environment [14]. To our knowledge, no other work has systematically explored the difficult healthcare conversations in radiology from the radiology personnel's experience.…”