CAPC Launches New Communication Skills Courses
Everything we want for our patients—better outcomes, better quality of life, higher patient satisfaction, fewer hospital readmissions, more equitable care—starts with building trusting relationships between patients, their caregivers, and the care team. This requires that clinicians from all specialties and disciplines, including physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, social workers, and chaplains, have effective communication skills.
To support this essential need, CAPC is excited to launch new Communication Skills courses as part of a new unit. These courses provide clinicians with techniques to discuss serious news and prognosis; have effective conversations about goals of care and care planning; and facilitate decision-making in meetings with patients and caregivers.
CAPC members: If you have taken our previous Communication Skills courses, you can take these courses and earn new continuing education credits (for physicians, nurses, social workers, and care managers). Free ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits are also available for physicians.