Advanced Communication for Physicians
This powerful online CME education program goes beyond the basics to help physicians and advanced practice clinicians fine-tune the concrete competencies that build relationships, foster engagement and collaboration, and your professional pride and effectiveness. Videos illustrate skills with rich scenarios. Takeaway tools support skill practice and application. And you can complete the program on-line, on any device, at your convenience.
Cost: $359.00Read more
Key Features
Respects clinicians time constraints with short, high impact modules.
In each module:
- Short video defines and illustrates the skills in everyday situations
- Do it yourself exercises for skill practice and application
- Short quiz
- Valuable resources you can print on demand-skill reference card
- self check
- peer feedback tool
- reference list
Topics Covered
- The Communication Solution
- Mindful Practice
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Openings and Closings
- Engaging Patients and Families as Partners
- Communicating with Empathy
- Effective Explanations
- Hard Conversations
Learning Objectives
- Describe five specific ways physician communication skills affect the patient and physician experience and positive patient outcomes
- Demonstrate the practice of presence (or mindfulness) during interactions with patients and families
- Be able to sustain mindfulness in the face of interruptions
- Demonstrate effective ways to open a patient encounter so the patient feels welcome, open, and confident in their relationship with the provider
- Demonstrate an effective closing—to end a patient encounter leaving the patient feeling closure, support and clarity—with a positive memory of the physician and the encounter
- Use five skills that enhance teamwork and collaboration
- Demonstrate the Ask-Tell-Ask Model for engaging patients, providing effective explanations and checking understanding
- Be able to verbally recognize and validate feelings of patients and their families, and communicate empathy nonverbally
- Use 3 skills to engage patients as partners in the care process
- Demonstrate the 6-step Hard Conversations model to engage patients, family members and coworkers in hard conversations in a manner that is direct, empathic and most likely to yield the desired results
Target Audience
All physicians and advanced practice clinicians
Additional credit info
CME Credits awarded by St. Louis University
