COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Dr. GIVI JAVASHVILI

AMIRREZA RABIEI
Group7
2018-2019
 CLINICAL VISIT

One of the most important things that every doctor is supposed

to know is how to treat patients professionally. According to this,
universities try to teach these skills to their students.
Tbilisi state medical university, as an university which provides
European education methods, sends their students to clinics to
experience the daily life of a hospital first hand. We as first course
students are supposed to visit Curatio clinic.
Curatio is a private, out-patient primary clinic with various
specializations such as; dentistry, family medicine, physiotherapy,
urology, neurology, and x-ray endoscopy.
 PART A: EXPERIENCE AT THE CLINIC

On first visit, we met Dr. Nino Kikdnadze. She gave some

information about the clinic and then we were guided to our rooms.
The room provides a comfortable situation for patient with the color
which was used for walls and also the pictures which were hanged on
the wall.There were two desks inside the room, one for doctor and
one for her assistant. Doctor's desk was close to patient’s chair which
it provides a position for doctor and patient to speak face to face.
The professionalism of doctor was shown as she was listening to the
patients carefully and rarely interrupted them to get certain
information about their problem.
The doctor mostly asked open questions and gave chance to the
patients to explain their problem.
The doctor was well-behaved and was trying to make a rather
comfortable atmosphere for the patient with non-verbal
communication such as smiling and eye contact and also verbal
communication as in greeting them whenever the patient entered,
elaborating about the problem and the process of treatment. Also,
giving the patient enough time to express their issue, average 25 min
for each patient, was another positive point about the doctor.

PART B: THE CASE

Patient name : ------

Age : Middle age
Gender : Female
Complains : she had pain in her backbone and her
thigh
Prescription directed : The doctor prescribed certain
medicines.

Doctor management : The doctor checked lab tests and then

checked the patient.

Point : The doctor recognized disk

deformation in lumbar part of
vertebrae and the reason that she was
feeling pain in her thigh too was that,
the Ishial nerve passes though thigh.