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The importance of communication in healthcare
70% of adverse events in healthcare can be ascribed to communication errors.
Communication and other soft skills are essential to the safety of both staff and patients, but they can be hard to teach, with a lot of people building these skills "on the job".
The Bodyswaps solution
With our Modern Healthcare Practitioner course, you can prepare your healthcare students and practitioners with essential skills in effective communication, cultural competence, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
With over 3 hours of autonomous, immersive scenarios, The Modern Healthcare Practitioner can help transform your learners into standout, confident professionals.
Who's it for?
This course is developed to be accessible for a wide range of learners, but would particularly suit:
- Medical Schools and Health & Social Care programmes: Supports the development of foundational interpersonal and communication skills ahead of clinical placements or employment.
- Medical Schools and Health & Social Care programmes: Supports the development of key staff-patient communication skills in a variety of situations.
- Healthcare Institutions and Nursing Schools: Equips practitioners and students with vital interpersonal communication skills to enhance staff-patient and interdepartmental interactions.
The Modern Healthcare Practitioner Modules
Communicating in a Person-Centred Way - Getting to Know Each Individual
Enable your health and social care students to develop essential communication skills for person-centred care.
Communicating in a Person-Centred Way - Acting with Empathy
Equip your students with the skills to understand others’ points of view and see things from their perspective, emphasising the importance of empathy in health and social care.
Navigating Angry Conversations with Patients
A series of VR training simulations to help newly qualified doctors and medical students to improve patient communications. Developed with The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).
Equity & Anti-Racism in Global Healthcare
A psychologically safe space where healthcare professionals can explore their own implicit biases and motivations.
The Mental Health Practitioner
Practise speaking to a patient with acute anxiety and depression, who is having suicidal thoughts.
TeamSTEPPS®️ Simulator
Coming Soon: Prepare your healthcare staff and students with essential skills for effective interprofessional collaboration.
What people say.
"Bodyswaps jumped out to me because they had a lot of scenarios that could be used by a lot of different people in a lot of different roles. Even in the first sort of foray into testing, one of our GPs said this would be great in this circumstance. This would be great in a different circumstance. So we could easily see that it could be used in many different settings for many different roles."
Liz Leggott
NHS Clinical Entrepreneur & Project Manager for the Innovation Centre, South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub
85%
of learners report improvement in their confidence to apply the simulated soft skills in real situations.
"In terms of the the overall experience, it's the fact that it felt like a safe space in which to practice and and try techniques. It's just very different to what we're used to. Normally, the simulation is in person, big audience watching you, because you got to take it in turns. It felt very different."
Dr Nabeel Alsindi
GP & Place Medical Director, Doncaster/SY ICB
87%
of learners report improvement in their self-awareness and knowledge of how to improve their skills.
"VR training is important for healthcare professionals because it's becoming increasingly challenging to try and get placements in hospitals and general practice. What this does is provide a bridge where they're able to experience a wide variety of things because the problems that you have with traditional placements is you don't know what you're going to come up with. Whereas with VR, you can try as many different scenarios as you want to help develop and build your own personal experience and portfolio, which then can be translated into real day practice."
Javidul Islam
Physician Associate Preceptorship Lead & Educator, South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce & Training Hu
95%
of learners would recommend Bodyswaps to their colleagues over traditional training.
