Abstract: Introduction: Nonverbal communication is an important part of the medical interview. However, nonverbal skills are still underestimated in medical education and instruments for their teaching and assessing in medical schools are scarce. Objective: We aimed to translate and culturally adapt the Relational Communication Scale for Observational measurement of doctor-patient interactions (RCS-O) to Brazil...
Abstract: Brazilian educational guidelines reinforce patient-centered care communication skills as an important competence for medical students. The Four Habits Coding Scheme (4HCS) is an instrument used for teaching and assessing clinicians’ communication skills in a person-centered care approach. We aimed to translate and culturally adapt the 4HCS into Brazilian Portuguese. The translation process was accompl...