This online course prepares surgeons to navigate conversations that involve choosing between surgery and other treatment options. The curriculum is specifically tailored to help clinicians articulate the best, worst and most likely outcomes of interventions to help patients choose between surgical and non-surgical options for treatment.
Dr. Gretchen Schwarze, a Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is renowned for her expertise in surgical decision-making, informed consent, advance directives, and end-of-life care. Dr. Schwarze originally developed Best Case/Worst Case with Dr. Toby Campbell, a palliative care physician.
After a decade of research around the Best Case Worst Case tool, she collaborated with VitalTalk to develop the Best Case Worst Case Course, specifically designed to train surgeons in facilitating discussions about surgical outcomes.
