The Impact of Health Communication Research on Medical and Health Professional Education and Training

Allison M Scott; Andrew A Coolidge; Erin E Donovan; Anna M Kerr; Krista Longtin; Charee M Thompson; David Ring; Lauren J Van Scoy

doi:10.1080/10410236.2024.2326258

The Impact of Health Communication Research on Medical and Health Professional Education and Training

Health Commun. 2024 Mar 19:1-8. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2326258. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Allison M Scott¹, Andrew A Coolidge², Erin E Donovan², Anna M Kerr³, Krista Longtin^{4

5}, Charee M Thompson⁶, David Ring⁷, Lauren J Van Scoy⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Communication, University of Kentucky.
² Department of Communication Studies/UT Center for Health Communication, University of Texas at Austin.
³ Department of Primary Care, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
⁴ Department of Communication Studies, IUPUI.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Indiana University School of Medicine.
⁶ Department of Communication, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
⁷ Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Humanities, and Public Health Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.

PMID: 38501301
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2326258

Abstract

In this essay, we review how health communication scholarship has been translated into various communication skills trainings (CSTs), we present four case studies of how health communication research informed the development and implementation of specific CSTs, and we reflect on how we can productively define "impact" in looking back as well as looking forward within this line of research.