Foreign Medical Graduates
Astute Doctor will help build your communication and professionalism skills now and in the future.
Build your confidence to communicate with impact as a US-based clinician.
We know that passing the USMLE validates your medical education and skills on a global scale. It is a stepping stone to a promising medical career and allows you to contribute your unique perspectives and expertise to the diverse and multicultural landscape of healthcare in the United States.
Your ultimate goal is to enhance your knowledge, gain practical experience, and, most importantly, provide exceptional patient care while increasing overall patient satisfaction through exemplary communication skills and medical expertise.
We aim to provide engaging learning opportunities to increase your impact as a US-based clinician.
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Continue your journey to Residency in the USA and identify how you can have more impact as a clinician with the e-book "Bridging Borders, Excelling in Communication as a Foreign Medical Graduate" by Astute Doctor.
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Facilitating accurate collection of patient history.
Effectively using questions/directions to obtain precise information needed.
History taking is organized and accurate.
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Following efficient, logical sequences
Focusing the physical exam on the patient problem or presentation
Being sensitive to the patients modesty and comfort
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Showing respect, compassion and empathy
establishing trust
responding appropriately to non-verbal cues
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Delivering efficient oral presentations of the patient's problems, including differential diagnoses and recommendations for the next steps
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Maximize your clincial impact with this comprehensive collection of interactive learning courses. It offers practical, evidence-based recommendations, case studies, and audio narration to provide you with interpersonal skills that can be implemented immediately in practice.
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Each course in this collection is designed in a step-wise approach to offer you a set of core communication skills that will optimize efficiency and improve outcomes in patient encounters.
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The six courses are arranged into chapters for effective and flexible learning on our online platform.
To learn more about each course in this collection click on the Learn more button below.
Increase your impact as a US-based clinician now and maximise your ability to pass the USMLE exams
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Increase your impact as a US-based clinician now and maximise your ability to pass the USMLE exams -
FMG Course Collection
Building Strong Patient Relationships
Build strong rapport with patients quickly, gain your patient’s respect, and improve patient experience.
This course shows how to facilitate an open, productive dialogue and achieve breakthroughs in patient understanding and acceptance.
Maximizing Patient Understanding and Recall
Make your treatment instructions more memorable, deliver simple explanations that patients understand, and improve patient experience.
This course shows how to build patient understanding, improve medication adherence, and facilitate patient recall at the right time.
Eliciting Patient Problems
Encourage early disclosure of patient concerns, optimize encounter time management, and improve patient experience.
This course shows how to prioritize patient concerns, build trust, elicit important information early, and respond to patients using empathy.
Motivating Patients
Identify when a patient is ready for change, overcome ambivalence, and improve patient experience.
This course shows how to uncover personal drivers for lifestyle changes, gain patient commitment, and increase treatment adherence through motivational interviewing.
Patient-Centered Information Gathering
Uncover deeper insights into patient symptoms, achieve earlier, more accurate diagnoses and improve patient experience.
This course shows how to facilitate patient-centered encounters, gather critical information, increase patient understanding, and encourage medication adherence.
Setting Mutually Agreed Goals
Understand patient health goals, engage patients in decision-making, and improve patient experience.
This course shows how to work with patients to set mutual goals, overcome barriers to goal achievement, and negotiate with patients to find common ground.
The course collection to improve your communication impact as a US-based clinician.
The course collection to improve your communication impact as a US-based clinician.
Complete the six comprehensive courses included in this collection NOW
Access the FMG collection for $199
Build your confidence to communicate effectively as a US-based clinician
Increase your ability to complete all requirements of the USMLE
What US-based clinicians are saying…
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“The education is down to earth and deals with the sorts of issues we all have. There’s no pretense — just pragmatic advice and techniques that work.”
Rheumatologist
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“Time well spent. Something different from the usual education available, and so essential for our day-to-day interactions with patients.”
Gastroenterologist
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“I’ve been a medical practitioner for over 20 years and this is one of the best educational programs I have ever participated in.”
Family Physician