This course will provide 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 also 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 briefly describe other interventions, such as decision aids, that can promote shared decision making. We will discuss implementation challenges of shared decision making and decision aids.
Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will: