Curriculum Content

Attending to Emotion

What I Wish I Had Done for a Grieving Father | New England Journal of Medicine

The Two-Minute Rant

• Rant and Reframe: An exercise in Empathy, Davis K. (n.d.)
• No Joke: The serious role of improv in medicine, Mahoney S.

Heads Up/Headline and Avoiding the Cognitive Trap

• Cases: Are Goals of Care Conversations About Emotion or Fact? ~ Pallimed
• Delivering Difficult Patient Conversations Is a Skill to be Learned, Practiced | ACS

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Supporting Deliberation

• Better Conversations for Better Informed Consent: Talking with Surgical Patients – PubMed
• Innovations in Surgical Communication JAMA Surgery Series
  • Innovations in Surgical Communication—Provide Your Opinion, Don’t Hide It | JAMA Surgery
  • Innovations in Surgical Communication 2—Focus on the Goals of Surgery | JAMA Surgery
  • Innovations in Surgical Communication 3—Promote Deliberation, Not Technical Education | JAMA Surgery
  • Innovations in Surgical Communication 4—Present the Downsides of Surgery, Not Just Risks | JAMA Surgery

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Managing Uncertainty

• Managing Uncertainty — Harnessing the Power of Scenario Planning | New England Journal of Medicine
• A Framework to Improve Surgeon Communication in High-Stakes Surgical Decisions: Best Case/Worst Case – PubMed
• “Best Case/Worst Case”: Training Surgeons to Use a Novel Communication Tool for High-Risk Acute Surgical Problems – PubMed

Communication Needs Assessment

• Training Surgical Residents to Communicate with Their Patients: A Scoping Review of the Literature – PubMed
• Family Survey of Understanding and Communication of Patient Prognosis in the Intensive Care Unit: Identifying Training Opportunities – PubMed
• Teaching Residents Patient-Centered Communication: A Call for Standardized Programming – PubMed
• Patient Perspectives of Surgical Residents’ Communication: Do Skills Improve Over Time With a Communication Curriculum? – PubMed

Podcasts and Interviews

• 7 Habits for Highly Effective Surgery Communication with Dr. Gretchen Schwarze – Behind the Knife: The Surgery Podcast
• Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley
• Best Case Worst Case Tool: Scenario Planning with Dr. Gretchen Schwarze – Behind the Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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