TY - JOUR AU - Anvik, Tor AU - Gude, Tore AU - Grimstad, Hilde AU - Baerheim, Anders AU - Fasmer, Ole B. AU - Hjortdahl, Per AU - Holen, Are AU - Risberg, Terje AU - Vaglum, Per PY - 2007 DA - 2007/03/30 TI - Assessing medical students' attitudes towards learning communication skills – which components of attitudes do we measure? JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 4 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - The Communication Skills Attitudes Scale (CSAS) created by Rees, Sheard and Davies and published in 2002 has been a widely used instrument for measuring medical students' attitudes towards learning communication skills. Earlier studies have shown that the CSAS mainly tests two dimensions of attitudes towards communication; positive attitudes (PAS) and negative attitudes (NAS). The objectives of our study are to explore the attitudes of Norwegian medical students towards learning communication skills, and to compare our findings with reports from other countries. SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-7-4 DO - 10.1186/1472-6920-7-4 ID - Anvik2007 ER -