فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

In recent years, medical guidelines for communicating bad news to patients have beenpublished. Training for this task was included in the curricula of undergraduate medicalcourses, specialization, and continuing medical education. The objective of this review isto evaluate the existing evidence in the literature on the effectiveness of such training. Onlyseven controlled trials were found, four of which were randomized, and these four indicatean improvement in the trainees. These findings suggest that training undergraduate andpostgraduate doctors in skills for communicating bad news may be beneficial but there areimportant limitations to reach a definitive conclusion. These limitations are discussed in thisarticle.