ABSTRACT
As the burden of anesthesiology teaching is heavy in undergraduate course, teachers can communicate with the students by nonverbal behaviors, such as eye contact, silent language, facial expression, paralanguage, which can make class atmosphere active, develop harmonious teacher-student relationship, and improve the quality of class teaching. Teachers of anesthesiology should take some measures, such as rehearsing lessons, summing up the experience of the lessons in time, accu-mulating the experience of nonverbal behaviors, and doing some exercise for the nonverbal behavior as much as possible, so as to set up an excellent atmosphere for teaching ,and meanwhile improve the quality of anesthesiology teaching.
ABSTRACT
Video recordings of two styles of consultation were created to assess how a physician's nonverbal communication behavior affects patients. A physician spoke the same lines for both recordings but demonstrated different nonverbal behavior: “immediacy” in one recording and “psychological distance” in the other. The frequency and length of the physician's nonverbal communication behavior were measured. Then two groups of subjects were asked to watch one of the recordings ( “immediacy” recording, n=32, and “psychological distance” recording, n=34) and rate the nonverbal behavior on a scale of 1 to 5. Subjects recognized that the physician was warmer, smiled and nodded more often, and made more eye contact with the patient in the “immediacy” recording than in the “psychological distance” recording. These video recordings could be used in patient-satisfaction surveys and medical education.