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FACILITATE: Acting-Based Course to Improve the Communication & Interpersonal Skills of Healthcare Professionals

Communication underlies physicians' scope of practice. CanMeds lists communicator as a core competency for medical practice and education. Various models of communication training have been proposed in medical school and residency training. Acting provides a unique approach to developing such skills. Our acting-based communication skills course, taught by a Canadian-American professional actor and physician, has been taught to hundreds of medical students, nursing students, and medical residents at multiple institutions in the United States and internationally.

We will conduct eight acting exercises, targeted to the unique needs of healthcare professionals, especially physicians. This workshop is hands-on, participatory, interactive. We start with a brief introduction about educational theory and evidence underlying this initiative. Our hand-picked exercises develop skills such as nonverbal communication, active listening, presence in the moment, situational awareness, and self-awareness. Each exercise is followed by clinical correlates and debrief with participants. The workshop culminates in a standardized patient vignette in which participants play a patient and provider, and apply skills developed. We also provide a communication toolbox with tools they can implement on their next shift.

Healthcare professionals at every level of training. This is an inter-professional initiative. We welcome a mixed audience of medical students, resident physicians, consultants/attendings, and allied members of the healthcare team.

Upon completion, participants will be able to apply acting skills to facilitate patient-centered communication, utilize specific tools to improve their clinical practice, and practice skills of non-verbal communication, self-awareness, and active listening.

Del Vecchio A, Moschella P, Pfennig C. Flexibility, Adaptability, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, and Listening: Improvisation, Theater, and Acting Training and Educational (FACILITATE) Curriculum Expansion: theater-based curriculum to develop skills of teamwork, self-awareness and mindfulness for nurses in training. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2019 Oct;(74)4:S43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.08.111 I was not sure where to include this in the submission, but I speak French fluently (it is my first language, having grown up in Montreal), so I would be happy to also conduct the workshop in French should that be of interest to your audience.

Communication

Theater in Medicine

Acting

General

Inter-professional Education

Continuing Medical Education

Postgraduate

Physician & Medical Student Health and Well-being

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