Who is it for?
Canadian Serious Illness Conversations (CSIC) is ideal for any health care professionals, such as primary care providers, nurses, and social workers, who want to use the Serious Illness Conversation Guide© more effectively and improve their ability to engage in meaningful and compassionate conversations.
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Course features
Gain a deeper understanding of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide©, informed by best practices from across Canada.
Collaborate and learn from Pallium’s national network of certified CSIC facilitators and interprofessional health care professionals.
Practice using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide© through role-playing exercises in a flipped-classroom model.
Acquire critical communication skills in just a few hours, ideal for busy health care professionals.
Learn from course materials that were built on a solid foundation of evidence-based principles tested by Ariadne Labs.
Earn a nationally recognized certificate of completion.
Gain a deeper understanding of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide©, informed by best practices from across Canada.
Collaborate and learn from Pallium’s national network of certified CSIC facilitators and interprofessional health care professionals.
Practice using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide© through role-playing exercises in a flipped-classroom model.
Acquire critical communication skills in just a few hours, ideal for busy health care professionals.
Learn from course materials that were built on a solid foundation of evidence-based principles tested by Ariadne Labs.
Earn a nationally recognized certificate of completion.
Delivery modes
- Self-paced learning: This two-part interactive, self-learning module can be completed at your own pace (approximately 1.5–2 hours of work). Learners are guided through using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide©.
- Facilitated session: Following the online module, participate in a dynamic and interactive 1.5–2-hour online workshop led by a certified CSIC facilitator. This clinician workshop provides the opportunity to improve and refine communication skills through role-playing exercises.
- Self-paced learning: This two-part interactive, self-learning module can be completed at your own pace (approximately 1.5–2 hours of work). Learners are guided through using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide©.
- Facilitated session: Following the online module, participate in a dynamic and interactive 1.5–2-hour in-person workshop led by a certified CSIC facilitator. This clinician workshop provides the opportunity to improve and refine communication skills through role-playing exercises.
Accreditation
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 3.0 Mainpro+® credits.
Up to
3
Mainpro+ credits
Course topics
The Canadian Serious Illness Conversations (CSIC) course equips health care professionals with the tools and knowledge needed to have compassionate and effective conversations with patients and their families dealing with serious illnesses, through topics such as:
Course partners
This course was developed in partnership with leading organizations across Canada.
This material has been modified by Pallium Canada. The original content can be found at ariadnelabs.org and is licensed by Ariadne Labs of Harvard Medical School under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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