Self-Directed Training
Learn how to identify what matters most to your patients and make care decisions that reflect their unique health priorities.
Microskills Video Series
Click the tabs below to navigate the training. Through these eight mini modules, learn how to help your patients identify their health priorities so that you can provide care that addresses what matters most to them.
This is the same content as the ACP and AANP curricula below. If you wish to receive CE for completing this training series, please go to either of those sites.
What is the best approach to caring for patients with multiple chronic conditions?
Start learning the Patient Priorities Care framework through a short case involving a 77-year-old woman with multiple medical problems.
What are my patient's values?
See examples of probing questions and communication tips for identifying health priorities for patients with multiple chronic conditions.
How can you help your patient set actionable goals?
Learn how to translate your patient’s values into specific, realistic, and actionable health goals.
What symptom or health problem is most interfering with your patient’s goals?
Use patient values and health goals to help you identify your patient’s most bothersome problem.
What are your patient's health care preferences and what tradeoffs will they make?
Guide conversations around tradeoffs and get tips for exploring your patient’s preferences.
What contributing factors are impeding your patient's health goals?
Apply the important “consider steps” of the Patient Priorities Care framework and continue the case study by completing this first activity in part 2 of the series.
What interventions best address your patient's most bothersome problem?
Determine which interventions to consider continuing, stopping, or starting based on the factors contributing to bothersome problems interfering with your patient’s health goals.
How can you focus communication and decision making on a patient's health goals and priorities?
Finish the case study and learn more strategies you can use to present intervention options and guide conversations with patients and other clinicians.
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