Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Study Course Description

Doctor-Patient Relations

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_020

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

5.00

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Artūrs Utināns

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychotherapist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Artūrs Utināns

Contacts

About Study Course

Objective

Acquire dependence of knowledge and skills of doctor-patient relations in compliance with the qualification of the psychotherapist. Integrate the knowledge of residents in the understanding, evaluation and development of therapeutic factors of doctor-patient relations based on several approaches, taking notice of the personality traits of the physician and patient. Skills: making initial contact with a patient for the purpose of making therapeutic relations and formation and maintenance of therapeutic alliance.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.ability to define and describe factors and mechanisms potentially leading to therapeutic doctor-patient relations, and preconditions for dysfunction.

Skills

1.develop a contact in therapeutic doctor-patient relations, develop a therapeutic alliance.

Competences

1.example-based knowledge, skills and attitude essential for working at a hospital and for research, raising public awareness via media; understanding of a team-work (work in groups) and its functions, psycho-dynamics, crisis situations and their solution; as well as the ability to manage the work of a multi-disciplinary team and be part of such team, supervise doctors and medical staff.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Essay on Balint's groups and doctor-patient relationship. Membership in the Balint Group.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Reflect on understanding about doctor-patient relationships process.
2. Examination	-	-
Written Exam

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Balint groups, their functions, types. The most frequently discussed problems in the Balint groups.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Physician-patient relationships in depressive syndrome and postpartum depression.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

5.00

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Danielle Ofri. When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. Beacon Press, 2021.

Randi Zlotnik Shaul. Paediatric Patient and Family-Centred Care: Ethical and Legal Issues. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014.

Alan Bleakley. Patient-Centred Medicine in Transition. The Heart of the Matter. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014.

Benedetti, Fabrizio, The Patient's Brain: The neuroscience behind the doctor-patient relationship, 2011.

MASTERING COMMUNICATION WITH SERIOUSLY ILL PATIENTS. Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope / Anthony Back, Robert Arnold, James Tulsky. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Preventing boundary violations in clinical practice / Thomas G. Gutheil, Archie Brodsky. The Guilford Press, 2008.

Emotions in practice. A study of Balint seminar training as experiential learning for qualified nurses / Jan Savage. Jan Savage, Royal College of Nursing, 2003.

The Doctor, the Task and the Group. Balint Groups as a Means of Developing New Understanding in the Physician-Patient Relationship / Kjeldmand D, Dissertation. Uppsala university, 2006.

Seeing patients: unconscious bias in health care / Augustus A. White III, with David Chanoff. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011.

Additional Reading

Jeffrey A. Kottler. The Therapist's Workbook. 2nd edition. 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Dennis Drotar. Promoting Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic Childhood Illness: Concepts, Methods, and Interventions. Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.

Kulbergs “Dinamiskā psihiatrija”, Jumava, 2001.

Coping with ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy/Martin Lakin, 1995.