How reflective practice can help you improve your communication

Learn how reflective practice can help you improve your communication. Hear six examples of reflective practice on patient communication, along with something you can do today, to improve your communication.

You’re already good at patient communication. I know that because you’re listening to this show! So today’s episode is about how reflective practice can help you–Yes, you– improve your communication. I’m going to give you six examples of reflective practice on patient communication, and I’ll end with something you can do right now, today, to get even better at communication than you are right now.

Hi, Everybody, I’m Dr. Anne Marie Liebel for Health Communication Partners, and this is 10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication, recently ranked number 20 of the top 100 podcasts in the Social Sciences by Goodpods.

Yes, this episode is about reflective practice and what it can do for you. And I think people, sometimes when they hear reflective practice, they think it’s soft, they think it’s something that you just kind of do if you have spare time every once in a while.

And what I’m going to present to you is a very different picture, about reflective practice as a strategy, reflective practice as a technique, a process, an attitude, a stance. And I’m going to share six examples with you of people reflecting just like that on the problems that they are experiencing. Because whether it’s an interview or a monologue, this show takes up problems that are really problems, that real people like you in the health sector face. Not the problems I imagine you have, or the problems that I think, or someone thinks, you ought to have, but the problems and issues you tell me you have. That includes our guests, too.

Now this episode is running in June and so far this year, we’ve had six interview episodes–which is a lot for us. This show is mainly monologues. So it was super exciting for me that things turned out this way, where I got to have six interview episodes already this year.

I was blown away by our guests. And they are our six examples of reflective practice. I’m going to give you a quick flyover, to encourage you to listen to them or maybe give them a re -listen. And peel back a little bit of the layers about what’s going on in these interviews, so you can maybe get a little bit more out of them when you listen.

So we had some folks who are new to the show. We had Dr. Bradley Block, Dr. Erin Bassinger and Dr. Maggie Quinlan, and Dr. T.Q. Davis.

Bradley Block talked about efficiency in patient communication and really, who doesn’t think about that?! But he’s got interesting things to say. He takes it some places–he’s reflective about being efficient. Definitely check that out. Erin Bassinger and Maggie Quinlan research provider communication and anti -fat bias in the reproductive health context. This is a life and death issue for the people involved, so if you haven’t listened, definitely give that a listen. T.Q. Davis talks about the issue, it’s not really a problem, but it’s an issue, of when patients are making medical decisions, how their faith or religious backgrounds may come into their decision-making processes, and how important it is as public health professionals or medical professionals to be aware of this.

We also had some r