An Educational Initiative Describing Clinician Teachers' Experiences Following Serious Illness Communication Skills Faculty Development Training.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Serious illness communication skills (SICS) are essential competencies for clinicians to possess. Unfortunately, SICS teaching is not routinely taught and many clinician teachers (CTs) never received training on how to teach them. We funded two cohorts of CTs to learn an evidence-based approach to SICS teaching to scale a unified approach to such training.

Objective

The primary aim of this study was to explore CT experiences and attitudes toward SICS teaching following completion of VitalTalk Faculty Development training. Our secondary aim was to identify perceived barriers and enablers experienced by CTs in the translation of newly acquired skills into the workplace.

Design/measurements

Survey and semi-structured interviews administered post-training.

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SUBMITTER: James H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12410333 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature