Optimizing the Clinical Encounter: The Science of Listening @UCSFDepartmentofMedicine
Optimizing the Clinical Encounter: The Science of Listening  @UCSFDepartmentofMedicine
Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Despite the rapid technological advancements in healthcare, there is one free intervention that has been proven to transform care and optimize health outcomes: effective listening. In addition to helping patients, effective listening could serve as a prescription for physicians in this time of burnout. In this Grand Rounds, Dean Schillinger, UCSF faculty member and author of an acclaimed new book, will offer insights into the different forms of listening and explore the connection between attention and patient well-being and clinical outcomes.

Speaker:
Dean-David Schillinger, MD, is the director of the UCSF Health Communications Research program and is a UCSF primary care physician, scientist, author, public health leader, and international expert in health communication.

Program
Lekshmi Santhosh: Introduction
1:30-55:00 — Dean-David Schillinger
55:00-1:04:00 — Panel Q&A

See previous Medical Grand Rounds:
September 10: Generative AI in the DOM: Cutting-Edge Applications and Innovations
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