Learning Objectives
- Describe the role NVC plays in transmitting messages between individuals
- Explain and model how to facilitate interpersonal communication through high-quality NVC
- Define the terms proxemics, gestures, posture, interpersonal space and facial expression and discuss how these influence interpersonal communication
- Identify differences in the way in which non-verbal communication is used between different groups eg. gender differences, and cultural differences.
Non-Verbal Communication
- why is NVC important for medicine?
- what is an affect display?
Gestures & Bodily Contact
- what is a gesture?
- what are the 4 types?
- what is bodily contact?
- what rules govern bodily contact?
Proximity & Orientation
- what is proximity?
- what determines our proximity in medicine?
- which proximity zones are doctors generally with patients?
- what is orientation?
- what is an open vs closed formation? what feelings do they elicit?