Mastering Tough Conversations
In VitalTalk’s Mastering Tough Conversations course, you’ll learn and practice core skills for goals of care conversations. Leave with communication tools you can use right away to connect with patients and families more effectively.
Now Offering PedsTalk:
Mastering Tough Conversations for Pediatrics
mastering tough conversations
For healthcare professionals across disciplines and specialties?
Asynchronous modules and live practice
$450-$997
Available Enrollment dates
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[2-Session] Mastering Tough Conversations
Price range: $798.00 through $997.00
The 2-Session VitalTalk Mastering Tough Conversations course includes two live Zoom sessions designed to build your core communication skills for values-based goals of care conversations with patients and families.
Learn skills for:
Session 1: Sharing News & Responding to Emotion
Session 2: Goals of Care
Each session combines self-paced online modules introducing VitalTalk’s signature talking maps with live, facilitator-led practice using simulated patients. You’ll learn in a supportive peer community through interactive exercises, role play, and real-time feedback—leaving with practical, evidence-based tools to guide serious conversations with clarity and compassion.
Course cancellation and transfer fees apply. Click here for details.
[1-Session] Mastering Tough Conversations
Price range: $450.00 through $550.00
The 1-Session VitalTalk Mastering Tough Conversations course includes one live Zoom session:
Session 1: Sharing News & Responding to Emotion
Combines self-paced online modules with live, facilitator-led practice using simulated patients.
Course cancellation and transfer fees apply. Click here for details.
What other clinicians say
“The [online module] expectations were clear, the instructions were thoughtful, and
the facilitators were really sharp about connecting what we were learning with the
modules. Every moment was relevant.”
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.
