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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Health Communication
  • Learning Sciences

Background:

  • Consensus statements highlight the need for improved clinician communication skills in difficult medical conversations.
  • Existing training programs lack scalability and validation, hindering widespread adoption.
  • Technological advancements offer potential solutions for effective and scalable training.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a scalable, theoretically grounded method for training clinicians in advanced communication skills.
  • To address the limitations of current communication skills training in medicine.
  • To leverage learning science and technology for enhanced medical communication education.

Main Methods:

  • Summarize key principles of adult learning relevant to medical communication skills.
  • Discuss best practices for designing engaging, technology-enhanced educational interventions.
  • Synthesize principles into a framework for a web- and videoconference-based training platform.

Main Results:

  • A framework for a low-cost, scalable training platform is presented.
  • The proposed platform integrates adult learning principles with technology-enhanced education.
  • The approach aims to overcome scalability barriers in clinician communication training.

Conclusions:

  • A scalable, theoretically grounded method for advanced communication skills training in medicine is proposed.
  • The web- and videoconference-based platform can significantly improve clinician communication.
  • This initiative has the potential to train thousands of clinicians in essential difficult conversation skills.