Continuing professional development activities
Our team specializes in training healthcare professionals by helping them developing the skills that will allow them to promote patient participation in decision making.
Develop Skills in Shared Decision-Making
The training offered by our team mainly targets medical students, residents in family medicine, and practicing healthcare professionals.
When it is difficult to make a decision- Training for Practicing Healthcare Professionals
Download PDFBy France Légaré
90 minutes workshop
Objectives- Recognize clinical situations in which the patient is likely to experience difficulty making a decision;
- Identify patients who are faced with difficult decisions;
- Identify modifiable factors that contribute to the patient's decision ;
- Recognize the facilitators and barriers to integrating new knowledge into the practice of family medicine.
Target Audience
Family physicians, residents, nurse clinicians, health professionals (ideally members of interdiscipinary patient care teams)
Teaching Methods
Presentations, video demonstrations, reflective discussion
Evaluation
This training workshop was evaluated and the results published in Medical Decision Making
DÉCISION+ Training Program- Training for Practicing Healthcare Professionals
By France Légaré, Michel Labrecque, Annie LeBanc, and the DÉCISION+ team
540 minutes workshop
Objectives-
A program of 3 workshops of 3 hours each
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Estimate as accurately as possible the diagnostic probabilities of acute respiratory tract infections: acute rhinosinusitis, acute pharyngotonsillitis, acute bronchitis, acute otitis media
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Understand the risks and benefits of all available therapeutic options, including “doing nothing”
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Effectively communicate these risks and benefits
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Encourage active patient participation in decision-making
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Promote shared decision-making regarding antibiotic use for acute respiratory tract infections
Target Audience
Family physicians, family medicine residents
Teaching Methods
Workshop, video demonstration, reflective discussion
Evaluation
Does training family physicians in shared decision making promote optimal use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections? Study protocol of a pilot clustered randomized controlled trial-
Shared Decision Making - Training for Family Medicine Residents
Download PDFBy France Légaré and Michel Cauchon
90 minutes workshop
Objectives
- Identify clinical situations that are appropriate for shared decision making;
- Identify the principal elements of shared decision making;
- Integrate screening for decisional conflict (also known as decisional comfort) into his/her practice;
- Present the principal characteristics of decision aids that facilitate shared decision making.
Target Audience
Medical residents in Familiy Medicine
Teaching Methods
Presentations, role play, reflective discussion
Shared Decision Making with the Patient - Training for First-Year Medical Students
Download PDFBy France Légaré, Dawn Stacey, Maria De Koninck et Nathalie Brière
120 minutes workshop
Objectives- Explain the “finding common ground” element in the patient-centred clinical method (PCCM);
- Recognize the importance of finding common ground with the patient so as to facilitate his/her adherence to diagnostic and therapeutic interventions;
- Identify the principal approaches to finding common ground with the patient, both in clinical situations where a best choice is clear (scientific certainty) or and in clinical situations where it is impossible to guarantee a given result;
- Present the patient with the principal elements of shared decision making and describe the principal characteristics of decision aids that favour shared decision making.
Target Audience
First-year medical studentsTeaching Methods
Presentations, role play, reflective discussions
Self-Training on Shared Decision-Making for Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis of Trisomies
Self-Training on Shared Decision-Making for Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis of Trisomies
As part of our project to evaluate the effectiveness of our scaling-up strategies on the involvement of pregnant women in shared decision-making regarding prenatal screening for trisomies 21, 18, and 13, we have developed several tools. Among these is a training module on shared decision-making for healthcare professionals, available on the Pédagogia platform of the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval.
We have also designed a decision-support tool, available on Greybox, for pregnant women in the province of Quebec.
Training on scaling up
Two online training courses on scaling up by l’Unité de soutien au système de santé apprenant (SSA) Quebec
The support unit has published two asynchronous online training courses on scaling up innovations in health and social services
LENGAGE
View training- Are you a citizen? This training will allow you to learn more about how to get involved in projects to scale up innovations in health and social services.
- Are you a researcher? A manager or public policy officer? An innovator? A health and social services professional? This training will allow you to learn more about how to engage citizens in projects to scale up innovations in health and social services.
éLARGIE
View trainingAt the end of this training, you will be able to assess the potential for scaling up an innovation in health and social services using the ISSaQ 4.0 self-administered questionnaire.
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Discover examples of shared decision-making tools
Our teams develops tools in order to facilitate shared decision making implementation in different health contexts, these tools are available in different formats and for different types of knowledge users.