Özet:

Communication skills are as important as clinical skills for veterinarians. Communication skills courses that will be added to the curriculum can provide students with these skills. Communication skills training in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine internationally often draws on the Calgary-Cambridge Guidelines. With this study, it is aimed to adapt these guidelines, the original of which is English, into Turkish and to enable both students and veterinarians to access the information contained in these guidelines in their native language. For this purpose, the original guides were translated from English to Turkish by four different people, examined by seven different experts in terms of grammar, intelligibility and content, and culturally adapted. The draft prepared was evaluated by 10 volunteer intern veterinarians who were studying at Ankara University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in the 2021-2022 Academic Year and selected by random sampling, and then a linguist was applied for the final check for grammar and semantic evaluation. Turkish English translation of the draft by the linguist, who works as the editor of medical translation, evaluated the harmony of the two texts. The guides, consisting of 7 main headings, 19 sub-headings, 73 items and three diagrams, were translated into Turkish with the title "Calgary-Cambridge Guidelines for Communication Skills in Veterinary Medicine". As a result, it is believed that these guides, which have been opened for access in the native language, will be useful not only for students, but also for clinicians in the process of communicating with the patient owner. Moreover, if the academicians working in the clinical sciences of the faculties benefit from these guidelines, it can be argued that the students can improve their communication skills through the hidden curriculum in addition to the undergraduate curriculum.