This course provides participants with the fundamental components of shared decision making. Specifically, participants will learn the basics about shared decision making including why it is important, how it differs from other related clinical tools (e.g., motivational interviewing, evidence based medicine) and what shared decision making has been proven to do (and not do). We will discuss how shared decision making occurs in practice, particularly how it can improve patient-physician discussions and how risk communication methods can improve decision making. We will describe other interventions, such as patient decision aids, that can promote shared decision making. We will discuss implementation challenges of interventions to promote shared and informed decision making.
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