PARTNERS: Inclusive Framework for Multidisciplinary Team Conversations

Course overview

Serious illness conversation is necessary across all multidisciplinary team members with medically fragile patients across settings. Often, in graduate, medical, and allied health programs, there needs to be more formal training in these concepts and principles. This course will define PARTNERS, an inclusive and accessible framework to help support and establish goals of care with critically ill patients. It will highlight the clinical care team's integral role in supporting and optimizing patient-centered care and quality of life. The course will also address the application of existing conversational guides and outlines and discuss opportunities to create local rubrics to develop serious conversation skills. From here, clinicians will be able to role-play, practice, and implement these discussions at their institutions to align goals of care between the patient and the multidisciplinary team.