Communications Skills Course: Effective conversations for pain clinicians
This communications skills course is designed to turn difficult pain clinic consultations into positive conversations using a wide variety of educational techniques, including medical actors. Suitable for anaesthetists and pain clinicians of all levels and experience.
This course is designed to turn difficult pain clinic consultations into positive conversations.
Participants will learn skills which will help manage controversial scenarios, such as de-prescribing, avoiding interventions and dealing with angry and upset patients, whilst empowering patients to self-manage their pain. The course will use a wide variety of educational techniques, including medical actors, making it highly interactive, practical and fun.
The day is suitable for anaesthetists and pain clinicians of all levels and experience.
Objectives
- Understand the benefits of advanced communication skills to empower patients to self-manage pain
- Learn relevant coaching and motivational interviewing skills and how to use them in a pain consultation
- Practice new skills to approach challenging pain scenarios
- Plan implementation in personal practice and/or wider systems
Facilitators: Helen Makins, Dimple Vyas, Allistair Dodds and Sheila Black
| Time | Format | Title |
| 09:00-09:20 | Lecture | Why use advanced communication skills in the pain consultation |
| 09:20-09:30 | Lecture | Overview of 4 sections of the consultation |
| 09:30-10:15 | Lecture/ practice |
Section 1 - Exploring |
| 10:15-11:00 | Lecture/ practice |
Section 2 - Planning |
| 11:00-11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20-12:00 | Lecture/ practice |
Section 3 - Shifting focus |
| 12:00-12:30 | Lecture/ practice |
Section 4 - Follow-up |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | |
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13:30-16:20 (15:30 Break) |
Actor scenarios |
Putting skills into clinical practice |
| 16:20-16:50 | Practice | Next steps for personal practice and the system |
| 16:50-17:00 | Further learning and evaluation | |
Programme subject to change.
Pricing
| Member/ Fellow |
Trainee/ Nurse |
Non Member |
|---|---|---|
| £285 | £215 | £355 |
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| Notice given by delegate | Amount refundable |
| More than 10 working days before the start of the event |
100% refund - minus the administration charge of £45* |
| Less than and including, 10 working days before the start of the event |
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