course overview
During each course, clinicians will be able to accomplish the following:
- Adapt a strategy for using the REMAP framework for conducting goals of care conversations with patients and surrogates.
- Determine which skill within REMAP is needed for particular goals of care conversations with patients and surrogates.
- Feel more confident and prepared for goals of care conversations.
- Adapt these strategies for both in-person and telehealth encounters.
Brief prep work of self-paced online modules that introduce you to VitalTalk’s signature talking maps and relevant skills.
Live classes with a specially trained facilitator who will lead you through interactive exercises and role play with a live simulated patient.
A different kind of course
This advanced communications course provides clinicians with specific frameworks and tools for managing difficult conversations with seriously ill patients. Clinicians will practice real-life scenarios with simulated patients. The topics covered typically include: delivering serious news, handling emotion, and goals of care discussions.
Task structure
You will learn and practice delivering serious news and goals of care conversations with seriously ill patients and their families in a community of your peers, led by facilitators experienced in the VitalTalk evidence-based learning method. Before the live classes, you will complete brief prep work and meet your colleagues online. During each live class, a specially trained facilitator leads you through interactive exercises and role play with a live simulated patient. After the course, you have the opportunity to continue learning on VitalTalk’s website.