From curriculum to clinical practice.
The SIG focuses on the educational and implementation conditions required for clinical communication competency to develop over time.
Teaching & Learning
Structured and longitudinal approaches that allow learners to understand, observe and practice communication across undergraduate training.
Practice, Assessment & Feedback
Deliberate practice, observation, meaningful feedback, reassessment and defensible assessment of communication performance.
Faculty Development
Practical support for faculty to facilitate learning, observe performance, provide feedback and make assessment decisions.
Evidence & Implementation
Connecting educational evidence with feasibility, workload, institutional context, governance and sustainability.
What sustained communication learning can include
- Clearly defined communication competencies
- Repeated opportunities to observe and practice
- Structured observation of learner performance
- Specific, actionable feedback
- Reassessment and support where competency is not yet demonstrated
- Faculty development and calibration
- Longitudinal documentation of learner development
Learning from institutions before prescribing solutions.
The SIG's current priority is to understand institutional experience, identify recurring implementation gaps and bring those findings together with relevant educational evidence.
Subsequent academic recommendations should distinguish between what is supported by evidence, what institutions report as feasible, and what still requires formal evaluation.