Communication Designation
This Learning Pathway provides continuing education on how to have skilled conversations with patients living with a serious illness, and their families. This training includes how to discuss serious news and prognosis, conducting a patient and caregiver meeting, and supporting difficult decision-making. Clinicians can use CAPC Designation to demonstrate communication expertise for this patient population.
Learn best practices for having patient-centered conversations about a serious illness diagnosis.
Learn how to effectively discuss prognosis with patients and their caregivers.
Learn best practices for building trust, eliciting patient values, and having patient-centered conversations about goals of care.
Learn to effectively lead meetings that help patients and caregivers become aligned around the patient’s goals.
Learn techniques to help patients and their caregivers plan for the future, both during the early stages of a serious illness and as a disease progresses.
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