New for 2024! We’re introducing 2 new topics to our standardized patient scenarios this year: managing challenging goals of care conversations and responding to existential distress.
| 7:30 | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 8:30 | Welcome and group discussion on communication skills |
| 9:30 | Standardized patient scenario #1: Family Conference: Janet William is a 61-year-old woman diagnosed with colon cancer with metastases to her lung and liver. Understanding the philosophy around the “family as the unit of care” and how both the patient and their family members experience the impacts of terminal illness. Clarifying medical information, helping families understand their roles, and diffusing tension are essential skills. |
| 11:15 | Refreshment Break |
| 11:30 | Standardized patient scenario #2: Goals of Care: Hershel Goldstein is a 78-year-old gentleman with end stage heart failure. Helping patients with a serious illness adapt to their illness realities throughout their illness trajectory. Communicating prognosis, asking patients what is most important to them, and making recommendations grounded in patients’ values and priorities. |
| 12:30 | Lunch (provided) |
| 1:30 | Standardized patient scenarios #3 and #4: Goals of Care: Max Bosko is an 80-year-old with advanced emphysematous chronic obstructive lung disease and dementia. Assisting patients and their loved ones to refocus their hope as they transition from curative care to palliative care. Eliciting a patient’s goals for care and clarifying their treatment priorities. |
| 2:30 | Refreshment Break (groups will rotate after break) |
| 2:45 | Standardized patient scenarios #3 and #4: Responding to Emotional Suffering: Mark Foster is a 41-year-old male with a primary diagnosis of metastatic rectal cancer with disease to liver, bone, and brain. Building a safe and supportive environment for patients and their families. Assisting patients and family members with coping strategies, redefining their roles within the family and in the community, reframing “hope,” and coordinating the necessary resources to address patients’ suffering. |
| 3:45 | Group debrief |
| 4:30 | Evaluation and adjourn |