Clinicians

Are you an individual healthcare professional interested in improving your communication skills? Explore our various training options today!

INSTITUTIONS

Are you interested in purchasing courses for your institution? We’d be happy to help to find the right training for your organization.

Online courses

Discussing Clinical Status
in Pediatrics

$49

Build confidence in responding to emotion with empathy and clarity.

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Best Case
Worst Case

$129

Navigate conversations that involve surgery and other treatment options.

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Building Connection:
Racial Equity

$99 – $129

Practical skills to promote racial equity in healthcare communication.

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Navigating Serious Conversations

$129

Essential skills every clinician needs to navigate serious illness conversations.

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Delivering
Serious News

$205

Improve your communication skills and connect deeper with your patients.

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Live Roleplay training courses

Mastering Tough Conversations

$450 – $997

Learn and practice delivering serious news and goals of care conversations with seriously ill patients and their families in a community of your peers.

  • Provides clinicians with specific frameworks and tools for managing difficult conversations with seriously ill patients.
  • Practice real-life scenarios with simulated patients.
  • Topics include: delivering serious news, handling emotion, and goals of care discussions.
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Train the trainer courses

Faculty Develpoment

$5,990 – $7,590

Learn to teach communication skills at your institution. This train-the-trainer program is for clinicians who want to become licensed VitalTalk faculty and join a growing community changing the culture of healthcare.

  • Virtual and in-person options available
  • Uses evidence-based teaching methodology of observation, practice and feedback
  • Exclusive access to the latest versions of VitalTalk teaching maps, simulated patient cases, facilitation guides, and mentorship opportunities.
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Evidence-based

 

We employ 20+ years of evidence-based communication skills research into our curriculum. Our courses focus on improving your communication with seriously ill patients, including discussing bad news, prognosis, early and late goals of care and end of life treatment options.

Safe space

 

Simulated patients give you a realistic patient experience, a safe space to practice and an opportunity to hone effective, authentic strategies. We guarantee you will leave courses feeling more confident in your own ability to discuss serious news and goals of care.

Culture change

 

By integrating evidence-based serious illness communication skills into healthcare practice through an engaged network of trained faculty, every seriously ill patient will be surrounded by clinicians who speak about what matters most and match care to values.

Just as no doctor is born knowing how to handle a scalpel, the same is true for how to communicate effectively with seriously ill patients and their families.

Whether in person or online, clinicians feel safe practicing newly learned skills through VitalTalk’s evidenced-based training methodologies.

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Clinicians learn to communicate about values and goals. Our courses prepare healthcare professionals with constructive tools for creating care plans that match their patients’ values. We work with some of the world’s top healthcare institutions to deliver a variety of communication skills training courses.

“The course was amazing. My facilitator was a fantastic small group leader and really facilitated a warm and welcoming environment where everyone felt comfortable participating, sharing, making errors and learning. He absolutely made this course great.”

~ Virtual Mastering Tough Conversations student