Faculty Development
Intensive train-the-trainer program for clinicians who want to become licensed VitalTalk Faculty and join a growing community changing the culture of healthcare.
faculty development
Two sessions set 3-6 months apart?
Delivering serious news, prognosis, goals of care?
Payment plans available?
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[Virtual] Faculty Development
$5,990.00
The program involves two, 3-day Zoom-based virtual workshops and distance learning. Upon completion of the course, you’ll be ready to teach and host communication courses focused on skills for goals of care conversations in a variety of formats including bedside teaching, using simulated patients, and more. You must commit to the entire program to attend.
Course cancellation and transfer fees apply. Click here for details.
Course enrollment criteria applies. Click here for details.
[In-Person] Faculty Development
Price range: $6,990.00 through $7,210.00
The program involves two, 2-day face-to-face workshops and distance learning. Upon completion of the course, you’ll be ready to teach and host communication courses focused on skills for goals of care conversations in a variety of formats including bedside teaching, using simulated patients, and more. You must commit to the entire program to attend.
Course cancellation and transfer fees apply. Click here for details.
Course enrollment criteria applies. Click here for details.
This curriculum is developed from our evidence-based teaching methodology of observation, practice and feedback. It incorporates small group work, goal setting, and professional actors as simulated patients.
How it works
The first workshop (R1) will give you a deep preparation for using core facilitation skills in your own practice. Then, after you have practiced your new skills and have had time to reflect on them, you will return for a second workshop (R2) that teaches you how to run your own Powered by VitalTalk communication skills program in your institution (both sessions mandatory to graduate).
The course will teach you facilitation skills for simulated role-play and bedside teaching that you can employ in your role as a clinician educator. You will leave this course feeling more confident in your own communication skills and ability to teach them to others.
A different kind of course
Upon completion of the course, you will be ready to teach and host a one-session Mastering Tough Conversations communication course that focuses on skills for early palliative care discussion and a late palliative care discussion using simulated patients. Also included in the course is a license agreement, which allows you to receive the latest versions of our teaching maps, simulated patient cases, and facilitation guides that are exclusive to VitalTalk faculty.
Task structure
This is an intensive two-part training series. The first workshop will give you a deep preparation for using core skills in your own practice. Some of the first session’s keys objectives are as follows:
- Communication skills practice refresher
- Introduction and practice of the VitalTalk Facilitation model for both small group workshop-oriented teaching and teaching in real time clinical settings
- Community building
- Post course engagement to keep skills fresh
Then, 3-6 months later, after you have practiced your new skills and have had time to reflect on them, you will return for a second three-day workshop.
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Course Enrollment Criteria
1) Participants must currently hold an educational role at their institution that allows them to participate as faculty in communication skills courses.
2) Participants must be active clinicians.
3) Participants must have completed or be actively enrolled in a VitalTalk pre-req communication skills course prior to registering for Faculty Development. (e.g. VitalTalk Mastering Tough Conversations 1 session or 2 session, virtual or in-person; Oncotalk; Pallitalk; IntensiveTalk; AAHPM-VitalTalk 1-day pre-conference course; or any Powered By VitalTalk courses led by VitalTalk trained faculty).
You will be asked to provide your course criteria information upon registration, which will be reviewed for suitability. We will review your registration information and we will contact you if we have any questions.
