RT Book, Section A1 Fortin, Auguste H. A1 Dwamena, Francesca C. A1 Frankel, Richard M. A1 Smith, Robert C. SR Print(0) ID 56845660 T1 Chapter 8. The Clinician–Patient Relationship T2 Smith's Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method, 3e YR 2012 FD 2012 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-176000-3 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56845660 RD 2025/06/19 AB In this chapter, we will introduce two advanced aspects of the medical interview: how to increase your personal awareness and how to maximize effectiveness by understanding patients' unique personality structures. Working on both of these skill sets will allow you to strengthen the clinician–patient relationship with all of your patients. While we will address features of clinicians and patients that can affect the relationship, we will not consider more general determinants such as the sociocultural matrix, patients' and clinicians' roles and subcultures1 (see doc.com Module 152), nor will we address relationships in medicine outside the clinician–patient dyad, a wider area often called relationship-centered or team-based care,3–5 such as relationships among nurses, administrators, clinicians, educators, and community representatives within a hospital or outpatient setting (we refer you to doc.com Module 38 for information on communication on healthcare teams6).