The manner in which a physician communicates information to a patient is as important as the information being communicated.Patients who understand their doctors are more likely to acknowledge health problems, understand their treatment options,modify their behavior accordingly, and follow their medication schedules. In fact, research has shown that effectivepatient-physician communication can improve a patient's health as quantifiably as many drugs—perhaps providing a partialexplanation for the powerful placebo effect seen in clinical trials. 
Decades ago, physicians were presumed to hone their “soft” communication skills at patients' bedsides, in their rounds asresidents, and as students at the elbows of master clinicians. Today, the communication and interpersonal skills of thephysician-in-training are no longer viewed as immutable personal styles that emerge during residency but, instead, as a set ofmeasurable and modifiable behaviors that can evolve. Based on emerging literature on the value of effective communication,medical students and postgraduates are increasingly given instruction on techniques for listening, explaining, questioning,counseling, and motivating. As such techniques are central to delivering a full and tailored health prescription, 65% of medicalschools now teach communications skills. Training in patient-physician communication is also now objectively evaluated as acore competency in various accreditation settings, including the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical LicensingExamination—USA—Performance Evaluation, the United States Medical Licensing Examination, and the American Board ofMedical Specialties' certification.
26. Which of the followings is the best title for the passage?
(A) Patient-Physician Communication: Why and How
(B) Medical Education: Now and Past
(C) Physician and Patient: the Interaction and the Exam
(D) How to Develop Physician’s Core Competence