Assessing physicians' interpersonal skills: do patients and physicians see eye-to-eye?
Some resident physicians have significant difficulty accurately assessing how well they communicate with patients. Physicians in training rarely get feedback regarding their interpersonal skills and may have difficulty using social comparison. Conversely, standardized patients and faculty observers may have insight into interpersonal skills about which resident physicians are unaware.
Based on these results, we conclude that the loss of function of AIP contributes to IFS, but not for most Japanese sporadic GH-secreting adenomas.