The document describes a communication workshop for final year medical students in collaboration with a university drama department. The workshop aims to help students consolidate communication skills, develop confidence, and reflect on their skills through role playing difficult patient scenarios. Feedback from pilot workshops was positive, with students finding the active, collaborative approach more challenging and engaging than traditional methods. Students developed fictional patient profiles based on their worst fears in medicine and acted them out with drama students. Discussions focused on personal anxieties and biases and how these may impact patient interactions. While some students felt more prepared, others realized real patients may be more difficult than expected.