TY - JOUR
T1 - Virtual Geritalk
T2 - Does Intensive Virtual Communication Skills Training Improve Use of Serious Illness Communication Skills?
AU - Frydman, Julia L.
AU - Dow, Lindsay
AU - Smith, Cardinale
AU - Kelley, Amy
AU - Lindenberger, Elizabeth
AU - P Gelfman, Laura
N1 - Funding Information:
The redesign of our course to a virtual format was adapted from the work of virtual learning collaborators at VitalTalk (www.vitaltalk.org), which was crucial to our successful implementation. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: JLF – Mount Sinai Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center P30AG027841 and the NIA T32AG066598, LPG – NIA K23AG049930, CBS – Cambia Foundation, Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program, ASK – NIA K24AG062785.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: JLF – Mount Sinai Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center P30AG027841 and the NIA T32AG066598, LPG – NIA K23AG049930, CBS – Cambia Foundation, Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program, ASK – NIA K24AG062785.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique opportunity to adapt in-person communication skills training to a virtual format. Objective: Examine use of serious illness communication skills by learners after participating in an intensive virtual communication skills training. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting/Subjects: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Clinical Fellows. Measurements: Family Meeting Communication Assessment Tool (FAMCAT) assessed fundamental and advanced communication skills. Results: As compared to a historical benchmark obtained after a prior in-person course, the virtual course showed equivalent or better use of communication skills across fundamental skills and advanced skills. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that a virtual communication skills training is associated with the use of serious illness communication skills in the clinical setting by learners.
AB - Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique opportunity to adapt in-person communication skills training to a virtual format. Objective: Examine use of serious illness communication skills by learners after participating in an intensive virtual communication skills training. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting/Subjects: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Clinical Fellows. Measurements: Family Meeting Communication Assessment Tool (FAMCAT) assessed fundamental and advanced communication skills. Results: As compared to a historical benchmark obtained after a prior in-person course, the virtual course showed equivalent or better use of communication skills across fundamental skills and advanced skills. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that a virtual communication skills training is associated with the use of serious illness communication skills in the clinical setting by learners.
KW - communication skills training
KW - graduate medical education
KW - observed communication skills
KW - patient-provider communication
KW - serious illness communication
KW - virtual training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134609817&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/10499091221116078
DO - 10.1177/10499091221116078
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85134609817
SN - 1049-9091
VL - 40
SP - 620
EP - 623
JO - American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
JF - American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
IS - 6
ER -