ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2012
Geritalk: communication skills training for geriatric and palliative medicine fellows.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Virtual Geritalk: Does Intensive Virtual Communication Skills Training Improve Use of Serious Illness Communication Skills?The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2023Article
- Serious Illness Communication Skills Training for Emergency Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers: A Multi-Method Assessment of the Reach and Effectiveness of the Intervention.Research square · 2023Article
- Geriatrics communication skills training program for oncology healthcare providers to improve the management of care for older adults with cancer.PEC innovation · 2022Article
- 4Ms for Early Learners: A Skills-Based Geriatrics Curriculum for Second-Year Medical Students.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2022Article
- Teaching and assessing communication skills in the postgraduate medical setting: a systematic scoping review.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Virtual Geritalk: Improving Serious Illness Communication of Clinicians Who Care for Older Adults.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of Integrating Simulation with Art-Based Teaching on Attitudes of Oncology Fellows for Learning Communication Skills: a Pilot Study.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2021Article
- Eating Problems in Advanced Dementia: Navigating Difficult Conversations.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2020Article
- Prognostic Awareness, Disease and Palliative Understanding Among Caregivers of Patients With Dementia.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2020Article
- A Social Worker-Led Primary Palliative Care Model for Hospitalized Patients Admitted to the Hospital Medicine Service.Palliative medicine reports · 2020Article
- Goals-of-Care Decisions by Hospitalized Patients With Advanced Cancer: Missed Clinician Opportunities for Facilitating Shared Decision-Making.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2019Article
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Abstract
Expert communication is essential to high-quality care for older patients with serious illness. Although the importance of communication skills is widely recognized, formal curricula for teaching communication skills to geriatric and palliative medicine fellows is often inadequate or unavailable. The current study drew upon the educational principles and format of an evidence-based, interactive teaching method to develop an intensive communication skills training course designed specifically to address the common communication challenges that geriatric and palliative medicine fellows face. The 2-day retreat, held away from the hospital environment, included large-group overview presentations, small-group communication skills practice, and development of future skills practice commitment. Faculty received in-depth training in small-group facilitation techniques before the course. Geriatric and palliative medicine fellows were recruited to participate in the course and 100% (n = 18) enrolled. Overall satisfaction with the course was very high (mean 4.8 on a 5-point scale). After the course, fellows reported an increase in self-assessed preparedness for specific communication challenges (mean increase 1.4 on 5-point scale, P < .001). Two months after the course, fellows reported a high level of sustained skills practice (mean 4.3 on 5-point scale). In sum, the intensive communication skills program, customized for the specific needs of geriatric and palliative medicine fellows, improved fellows' self-assessed preparedness for challenging communication tasks and provided a model for ongoing deliberate practice of communication skills.
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