Writing, Speaking, and Communication Skills for Health Professionals

by Stephanie Roberson Barnard, Stephanie Roberson Barnard, Kirk T. Hughes

Strong communication skills are required of today’s health care practitioners. Medical writers, medical students, residents and postdoctoral associates, physicians, biomedical researchers, nurses, pharmacists, and others in the allied health professions must develop and continue to improve their communication skills if they aspire to excellence in the medical and biological sciences. This book―a guide that belongs in the personal library of every health care professional―brims with practical advice on a broad range of essential medical communication skills.

The volume opens with an examination of how to organize the complex technical data encountered in clinics and the scientific literature. Next the book discusses the publication and presentation tasks that health care practitioners face, in particular the journal article, the grant, the conference poster, and the curriculum vitae. The third section of the volume explores teaching medicine and the problem-based record, and the final section deals with timely topics in the business of health care, including customer service, practice-building in competitive markets, meetings skills, and business writing. Easy-to-read and wide ranging, this book is the ideal communication primer for everyone in the health care field.

352 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2001

About the author

Stephanie Roberson Barnard

Communication Consultant Stephanie Roberson Barnard has trained thousands of pharmaceutical industry professionals on how to be more effective speakers, writers, and communicators. She has written patient education literature, developed online video compliance training modules, and helped create and implement personalized communication training plans for senior account managers. In addition to her work in the pharmaceutical industry, over the past 15 years, Stephanie has coached hundreds of health care professionals on presentation skills for FDA hearings, CFO reports, and scientific speaker programs, as well as national and international congresses. Some of her clients include AstraZeneca, Bayer Corporation, WL Gore, and Boehringer Ingelheim.

For a complete list of organizations and therapeutic areas where Stephanie has consulted, go to http://stephanierobersonbarnard.com/; to see a trailer of the online speaker training module, go to http://rightturncommunication.com/dem....

Reviews

[Elizabeth]

As featured in the "Presenting Your Research" unit in the "Your Research Career" summer intersession course presented by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions' Professional Development Office.