Communicating in Medicine

Communication in healthcare is not just the exchange of information, but the foundation of a trust-based relationship that can enhance the clinical experience and treatment adherence. On this page, you’ll explore how authentic and transparent dialogue can transform the relationship between doctor and patient, creating a more human and effective care path.

The Central Role of Communication in Healthcare

Why communication matters in medicine

Effective communication is key to building trust, reducing anxiety, and improving treatment adherence. Numerous studies show that open dialogue between doctor and patient leads to better clinical outcomes and greater satisfaction for both parties.
This section explores the value of communication as an essential tool in everyday clinical practice.

Techniques and Strategies for Effective Communication

Practical tools to build authentic dialogue with patients

Adopting targeted communication techniques is essential for building a solid and trust-based relationship with patients.

This section explores practical tools to improve the quality of dialogue:

  • Active listening and empathy
  • Clear and accessible language
  • Constant and constructive feedback

Innovative Approaches and Digital Tools

Technology and innovation supporting communication in healthcare

New technologies offer valuable opportunities to improve communication in healthcare.
From telemedicine platforms to digital monitoring tools, these innovative approaches enable continuous and personalized dialogue, integrating traditional techniques with cutting-edge digital solutions.
Learning to communicate effectively at a distance is now a fundamental skill: using these tools with awareness and sensitivity can strengthen the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients, making it more dynamic, accessible, and interactive.

The 6 Training Areas

Effective Communication

Train to communicate with clarity and empathy with patients and colleagues, using international models like the Calgary-Cambridge guide to structure clinical interaction effectively and humanely.

Public Speaking

Learn to communicate effectively in public, whether in front of small groups or large audiences. Engage, manage time, regulate your emotional state, and confidently achieve your goals.

Coaching Skills

Develop key coaching skills to build trust, listen actively, ask powerful questions, and support change within the care relationship.

Emotional Management

Acquire strategies to recognize, regulate, and train your emotional state, enhancing presence, clarity, and communication in daily clinical practice.

Team Coaching

Train your ability to work synergistically with colleagues in interprofessional settings. Learn to value differences, foster collaboration, and strengthen teamwork for more effective and integrated care.

Leadership

Cultivate your ability to lead and inspire in complex environments. Effective leadership is key to motivating colleagues, driving change, and improving care quality.

Communicating effectively in healthcare is not just a natural talent: it’s a skill that can be learned and trained.
The six training areas represent targeted paths to develop abilities that enhance effectiveness, care quality, and professional well-being.

Contact

Emanuela Mazza, MCC Coach and Trainer, Lecturer in Communication Skills in Medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

About me

My books

Destination Yourself

“I have decided to invite you on a journey where the destination is not to earn more money, to be richer, to improve your career or business, to be more effective in this or that activity or happier, but to become yourself, who you really are and want to be, the extraordinary person you are meant to be. Convinced that this can bring you everything else!”

The doctor-patient relationship

Emanuela Mazza, Professor of Communication Skills in Medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and former patient, addresses physicians, nurses and all health professionals, reminding them that doctor-patient communication is not an optional side dish of the health professions, but rather a central ingredient of the therapeutic pathway.

When it wakes you up

An autobiographical account that traces the story of the sudden and fulminating illness that led Emanuela Mazza from liver transplant, to coma, to recovery and “restart.” A journey that beyond the physical aspects represents a total revolution for Emanuela. A journey that involves all emotional spheres.

Stories of experiences

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Roberto Crupi, Marketing Manager

Alfasigma

The decision to develop this project with Dr. Mazza is to be related to her coaching experience already gained in similar projects with other specialists and also directly with patients. In addition, and I would say above all, a key role in the choice was derived from her personal history as a patient and her directly experienced difficulty in establishing a “true” dialectical relationship with the specialist.
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Paolo Minuti, Director

Federfarma Rome

A training course, the one curated for Assifar Servizi by Emanuela Mazza and her team as part of the “Pharmacist Manager” project, was really very interesting. […] Contributed largely to the success of the course was the ability of the speakers to create empathy with the group and their extraordinary preparation and mastery of the subject, with an effective use of interactive and Coaching methods.

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Prof. Antonio Lanzone

Sacred Heart Catholic University

I had heard from some influential colleagues in my Faculty of Medicine about Dr. Mazza’s professional gifts on the topic of Physician-Patient Communication. Therefore in the first instance I attended some of her lectures and was convinced of the merits of starting some projects with her.
Experience in the field confirmed to me Dr. Mazza’s gifts of rigor and high professionalism and her ability to build a training

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Patrizia Serenella, Medical Sector Manager

Alpha FCM

I had the opportunity to collaborate with Emanuela realizing many educational-scientific projects in the medical field during these 7 years. A true professional of Coaching in medical-patient communication, always highly appreciated in the training events realized.

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Gianluca Musso, Founder and CEO

Euro Music Network

Looking back I see a beautiful path in which Emanuela with her work managed to give me the means to find the strength to face it. Looking forward I see a very long road but full of goals to achieve and people to share victories and defeats with. Today I am a focused person, serene and happy with who I am.

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Riccardo Severi, Project Manager

Minerva

Special thanks go to Dr. Emanuela Mazza for making a significant contribution, as an International Trainer, to enhancing and strengthening the self-esteem and communication-relational skills of Swaziland’s top female university students involved in the country’s first Campus in Publishing, Information and Human Rights.

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