The Serious illness communication skills training is a 2.5 hour facilitated training that teaches healthcare professionals a framework for serious illness conversations. These skills can help clinicians: Improve communication: Learn how to attend to patient and family emotions, and assess patient's understanding of their illness and preferences for information Deliver bad news: Learn how to deliver serious news in an empathetic way Explore goals of care: Learn how to explore patients' goal...

This RSS will provide participants with practical approaches to the management of pain and issues of prescription drug misuse and addiction. The sessions will focus on the challenge of pain management for healthcare professionals across the healthcare continuum and encourage discussion and exchange of best practices in providing patients with evidence-based strategies for assessing and managing pain in various settings. Teaching methods include lecture, discussion, case studies, and inter-profes...