From Simulation to Bedside: A Pilot Study to Measure Impact of Communication Skills Training Program (QI630)

There is a growing national mandate to train all clinicians in primary palliative care skills including serious illness communication. As a result, there has been extraordinary growth of programs to teach complex communication, but few studies to evaluate retention of skills acquired in training. At University of Massachusetts, internal medicine (IM) residents have a mandatory training in serious illness communication using simulation and patient actors. We designed a pilot to compare residents' performance in simulation versus real-life bedside encounters with hospitalized patients.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Vandana Nagpal, Majid Yazdani, Prashant Veerreddy, David Fish, Mary Philbin, Jennifer Reidy Source Type: research