Communication with Health Care Professionals
3 April 2025
Toine Korthout
In individual healthcare, factors such as expertise, competence, empathy, communication skills, and understanding one’s own limitations are naturally of great importance. There are conceivable situations in which it may be useful, desirable, or even necessary to consult with other healthcare professionals involved in your patient’s care. This is where communication with other healthcare professionals comes into play.
In this interactive seminar, we will explore the types of communication channels between healthcare professionals, the legal aspects of communicating about patients, and the resulting requirements for communication between healthcare professionals. This may involve communication between conventional healthcare providers, complementary healthcare providers, or between complementary and conventional healthcare providers.
Based on the presented information, seminar participants will also engage in practical information exchange. Therefore, we ask you as a participant to bring a real or fictional case from your own practice that you might want to discuss with a colleague, a general practitioner, or a specialist of one of your patients.
There will also be an opportunity to exchange both personal and professional experiences with other course participants.
By the end of this course day, you will be able to discuss communication within and with conventional healthcare at least in terms of…
• The ways in which communication between conventional healthcare professionals takes place.
• The communication methods available to complementary healthcare professionals to communicate with conventional healthcare professionals, if necessary, within the framework of their patient care.
• The requirements that communication with other (conventional or complementary) healthcare professionals must meet, especially in terms of healthcare law.
Furthermore, during this seminar, you will have practiced communicating with a healthcare professional.
- Toine KorthoutStudied natural medicine at the "Nederlandse Akademie voor Natuurgeneeskunde" in Hilversum, medicine at the Rijksuniversiteit Limburg in Maastricht (Msc 1988, MD 1991), acupuncture education at Stichting NAAV Education with specialization auriculo (1996) and Pedagogic Didactical skills for HBO teachers at Interstudie NDO van Hogeschool Arnhem en Nijmegen (2013).
Price
Student discount
Shenzhou student: 15%
External TCM student 5%
(Limited places available for students)
Please see the payment and registration conditions for seminars in the registration form.
Accreditation
- NVA and Zhong requested
Dates & Time
10 am – 17 pm (1 hour break)
Location
Geldersekade 67, 1011 EK Amsterdam
Language
Levels of experience
- Acupuncturist, Herbalist or final year student
- Therapist with valid MBK (WM) diploma
Number of participants
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