To that end, I recommend making it clear that it's your advisor's job to get everyone on your board to agree that, despite what might be different views, training and communication styles, they will actively keep each other informed as needed.
In my opinion, they just need a different type of attention, training method and communication style.
Most notably the idea of 'poor' or 'effective' communication is subjective, with factors such as patient behaviour, time, resources and previous training all affecting clinician communication style.
Before this experience, I did not realize how important my relationship, including my communication style and training, would affect the data collection process.
Discrepancies between consultation length and communication style represented in training and the typical consultation for clinicians has previously been cited as a barrier to implementing an intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing [ 27].
As the intervention (SDM training for GPs) affects a GP's communication style which, in turn, affects all patients of a given GP, a randomisation on patient level would have led to a contamination of treatment conditions.
During their training, doctors do not learn to use such a communication style during consultations.
19 Training emphasised shared setting of agendas and a guiding communication style, as well as discrete strategies and skills drawn from motivational interviewing practice.
Thus doctors' inadequate communication training could be one of the keys to the prevailing usage of a paternalistic communication style during consultations.
Health promoters were trained in an initial 4 day workshop which focused on the overall structure of the sessions, communication style and skills, diabetes knowledge and the first two sessions.
Although, there is evidence to support the effectiveness of this autonomy supportive communication style, adopting this behaviour in clinical practice may prove challenging without the addition of appropriate education or training resources.
