COSMOS – Consultation Skills that Matter for Surgeons - Shared Decision Making

Name: COSMOS – Consultation Skills that Matter for Surgeons - Shared Decision Making
Start: 2025-02-11T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-11T20:30:00+00:00

11th Feb 2025

7:00 - 8:30pm (GMT)

General surgery

Surgery

11th Feb 2025

7:00 - 8:30pm (GMT)

Event will start in 6 days

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Attendance certificate available

Free

ONLINE

Description

Our conversations form the basis of the whole package of surgical care. They determine patients’ choices, their confidence, their ability to cope with compications, and much else. But do we take the same care with them as we do with an operation?

In this webinar we will cover key points of the RCSEd COSMOS programme, module A, which is about “Shared Decision Making”.

Aims

This webinar will bring participants up to date with current best practice in Shared Decision Making.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be better able to:

Explain the need for Consultation Skills, therapeutic conversations and Shared Decision Making (SDM) with patients
List core elements of good consultation, and pitfalls
Demonstrate use of the “team talk and options talk” parts of the “3 talk” model
Adapt to cultural variations.

Panellists

Panellists TBC - Please check back soon

CPD

1.5 Hour

Summary

Boost your patient interaction skills at our upcoming session - COSMOS: Consultation Skills that Matter for Surgeons - Shared Decision Making. This immersive teaching session focuses on how surgeons can effectively incorporate shared decision making in their practice, thereby strengthening the doctor-patient relationship, improving patient satisfaction, and ensuring more well-rounded care. Ideal for medical professionals striving for better patient outcomes, this session explores practical tips and strategies to enhance communication, negotiation, and collaboration in a surgical context. Don't miss this chance to refine your consultative approach and contribute to a higher standard of patient care!

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Learning objectives

By the end of the session, participants should be able to understand the critical importance and value of shared decision making in surgery and how it can improve patient outcomes and satisfaction.
Participants should be able to identify opportunities within their practice for applying shared decision-making strategies (e.g. during pre-surgery consultations, post-operative discussions, etc.)
Participants should develop and refine their communication skills to facilitate shared decision-making, including how to effectively explain complex surgical options in a way that is clear and accessible to patients.
Participants will learn techniques for assessing a patient's preferences, values, and circumstances, and how to incorporate these factors into the decision-making process.
The audience should be able to apply the learned skills in real-world scenarios, demonstrating how to delicately manage disagreements or differences in opinion between patients and medical professionals while still respecting the principle of shared decision making.

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