Family Meeting Training Curriculum: A Multimedia Approach With Real-Time Experiential Learning for Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Effective communication skills are widely recognized as an important aspect of medical practice. Several tools and curricula for communications training in medicine have been proposed, with increasing attention to the need for an evidence-based curriculum for communication with families of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods

We developed a curriculum for internal medicine residents rotating through the medical ICU that consisted of a didactic session introducing basic and advanced communication skills, computer-based scenarios exposing participants to commonly encountered dilemmas in simulated family meetings, and experiential learning through the opportunity to identify potential communication challenges prior to facilitating actual family meetin

SUBMITTER: Glod SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7062545 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature