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Medicine Now

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Young doctors fresh from medical school may be faced with telling somebody he has cancer, or that a close relative is dying. Yet formal medical training offers few opportunities to gain experience of such difficulttasks.GeoffWatts reports from the University of Manchester, where actors and video tapes are being used to introduce students to the consulting room, and examines the implications of this innovation in medical education.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

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Geoff Deehan

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