NCT01249170

Communication Skills Training and Competency Assessment for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellows

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jennifer McCallister MD · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Study to determine if pulmonary/critical care fellows will demonstrate increased competency in the behavioral skills necessary to facilitate family meetings focused on discussions of goals of care in the ICU from pre- to post-communication skills training.

Detailed description

The investigators hypothesize that pulmonary/critical care fellows will demonstrate increased competency in the behavioral skills necessary to facilitate family meetings focused on discussions of goals of care in the ICU from pre- to post-communication skills training.

Conditions

• Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	First year program	Information on group that underwent new educational program
OTHER	Control comparison	Information from group that did not undergo new first year program

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2010-11-29
• Last updated: 2013-11-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States