TY - JOUR T1 - EM Talk: communication skills training for emergency medicine patients with serious illness JF - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care JO - BMJ Support Palliat Care SP - 219 LP - 224 DO - 10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000993 VL - 6 IS - 2 AU - Corita R Grudzen AU - Lillian L Emlet AU - Joanne Kuntz AU - Ashley Shreves AU - Erin Zimny AU - Maureen Gang AU - Monique Schaulis AU - Scott Schmidt AU - Eric Isaacs AU - Robert Arnold Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://spcare.bmj.com/content/6/2/219.abstract N2 - The emergency department visit for a patient with serious illness represents a sentinel event, signalling a change in the illness trajectory. By better understanding patient and family wishes, emergency physicians can reinforce advance care plans and ensure the hospital care provided matches the patient's values. Despite their importance in care at the end of life, emergency physicians have received little training on how to talk to seriously ill patients and their families about goals of care. To expand communication skills training to emergency medicine, we developed a programme to give emergency medicine physicians the ability to empathically deliver serious news and to talk about goals of care. We have built on lessons from prior studies to design an intervention employing the most effective pedagogical techniques, including the use of simulated patients/families, role-playing and small group learning with constructive feedback from master clinicians. Here, we describe our evidence-based communication skills training course EM Talk using simulation, reflective feedback and deliberate practice. ER -