Workshop Calendar

Speaking with patients or their families after a medical error or an adverse medical event is one of the most difficult and emotionally challenging conversations any clinician can have. You can learn to have such a conversation with good preparation, presence and compassion. This interactive online workshop will introduce clinicians to the understanding, ethical underpinnings, best practices, tools, and skills to conduct these difficult conversations.

CE Available: CME/IPCE; CNE

OPEN TO: Clinicians, team leaders, and healthcare institutions worldwide

Each day-long workshop brings together interdisciplinary professionals across experience levels to engage in a day of learning that focuses on the unique communication and relational skills needs of young neurologically complex patients and their families.

CE Available: CNE and Social Work

COMPLIMENTARY registration for employees of Boston Children’s Hospital 

Neurology workshops using the Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills (PERCS) teaching approach employ a case scenario methodology to enhance communication skills by neurology residents in a consultation setting.

March 12: Somatoform Disorders

May 21: NICU

OPEN TO: Clinicians, team leaders, and healthcare institutions worldwide

ALSO OFFERED: Tuesday, May 12, 2020

This workshop using the Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills (PERCS) teaching method offers interdisciplinary participants the opportunity to learn about powerful communication skills and relational abilities when having difficult conversations in the pediatric and cardiovascular critical care units.

CE Available: CNE and Social Work

COMPLIMENTARY registration for employees of Boston Children’s Hospital and affiliated Harvard teaching hospitals

DESIGNED FOR: Physician leaders (Division Chiefs, CMOs, senior staff), risk managers, patient safety & quality professionals

If your team makes a medical error, your leadership is critical. So much is at stake: patient care and trust, above all...as well as ethical and practical considerations. Get a solid grounding in the core process of coaching colleagues throughout the process of error disclosure and apology.

OPEN TO: Clinicians, team leaders, and healthcare institutions worldwide

This workshop using the Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills (PERCS) teaching method offers interdisciplinary participants the opportunity to learn about powerful communication skills and relational abilities when having difficult conversations in the pediatric and cardiovascular critical care units.

CE Available: CNE and Social Work

COMPLIMENTARY registration for employees of Boston Children’s Hospital and affiliated Harvard teaching hospitals

OPEN TO: Clinicians, team leaders, and healthcare institutions worldwide

In this interprofessional faculty development course, participants will learn about a variety of innovative concepts, methods and strategies for teaching and enhancing relational capacities, communication skills, attention to values and ‘everyday ethics’, professionalism, and interprofessional teamwork, collaboration and practice.

CE Available: CME/IPCE, MOC, Risk Management

OPEN TO: Boston Children’s Hospital employees only

How do you support a parent or family member during the most urgent moments in their child’s care? In this intensive live-simulated workshop, participants learn about patient, clinician, and family perspectives, how to provide information, and how to offer families emotional support that can help them cope.

Held at Boston Children’s Hospital Simulator Program (SIMPeds) 

CE Available: CNE and Social Work

Also offered: Friday, November 15, 2019 

COMPLIMENTARY registration for employees of Boston Children’s Hospital 

Neurology workshops using the Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills (PERCS) teaching approach employ a case scenario methodology to enhance communication skills by neurology residents in a consultation setting.

NICU workshops using the Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills (PERCS) teaching method focus on how to discuss difficult subjects with an infant's parents. Participants will gain practical skills, learn about possible communication approaches, and discuss the ethical underpinnings for having these difficult conversations that are particular to neonatology.

CE Available: CNE and Social Work

COMPLIMENTARY registration for employees of Boston Children’s Hospital and affiliated Harvard teaching hospitals

OPEN TO: Clinicians, team leaders, and healthcare institutions worldwide

As a radiologist or clinical professional working in radiology, you may face difficult conversations such as revealing life-altering diagnoses, radiation risks, and disclosing errors. Learning to hold such conversations with greater presence, compassion, and confidence is valuable to you as well as for your patients’ experience.

CE Available: CME, Risk Management, CNE

COMPLIMENTARY registration for Boston Children’s Hospital radiology staff and clinicians

Communication for informed consent is vital for patients, families, and providers. Yet it is often inadequate, resulting in poorly aligned expectations for a surgery, procedure, or course of treatment. Such communication depends on establishing relationships and trust, even within limited time. This course focuses on improving communication and relational skills during the informed consent process to better align provider and family expectations, with a specific focus on surgical informed consent. CME Available

OPEN TO: Clinicians, team leaders, and healthcare institutions worldwide

This workshop using the Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills (PERCS) teaching method offers interdisciplinary participants the opportunity to learn about powerful communication skills and relational abilities when having difficult conversations in the pediatric and cardiovascular critical care units.

CE Available: CNE and Social Work

COMPLIMENTARY registration for employees of Boston Children’s Hospital and affiliated Harvard teaching hospitals

OPEN TO:Boston Children’s Hospital employees only

الموقع: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

CE Available: CNE and Social Work

NO COST