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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Teaching doctors how to better relate to their patients
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:05
	Publish Date:		2016-10-19 19:00:00
	Description:		One the objectives of a new physician training curriculum at the University of California, San Francisco is to ensure that future doctors can speak to their patients in an understandable way. Dr. Anna Chang of the University of California, San Francisco, who helped develop the Bridges curriculum, explains that doctors do need to translate everything the patients say into medical language. "The patients will say, “I have a pain in my elbow and I’ve had a pain in my elbow for some weeks. We have to translate that to each other in order to diagnose that and treat that into something like, “This is a patient who has had an intermittent oligoarthritis for a subacute duration.” And that sounds nothing like what the patient told us." Doctors often continue using this language with patients. "So starting with day one, we are asking our students to practice what the world looks like from their patients’ perspectives."
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