This book & its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition, provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated, revised, & expanded, this new edition examines how to construct a skills curricular at all levels of medical education & across specialties, documents the individual skills that form the core content of communication skills teaching programmes, & explores in depth the specific teaching, learning & assessment methods that are currently used within medical education. The first entirely evidence-based textbooks on medical interviewing, it is essential reading for course organizers, those who teach or model communication skills, & program administrators.