Aparna Kalyan, MD

Julia Vermylen, MD, MPH
Northwestern Medicine, Palliative Care
Co-Director, Northwestern Simulation Program in Healthcare Communication

Featured topics and Time-stamped Episode Bytes:

00:00:24 - Timing when discussing long term goals
00:04:56 - Managing patient's expectations and comprehension
00:08:43 - "Having more good days than bad days"
00:10:10 - Taking clinical context into account when approaching care
00:12:43 - Programs/Courses to help with serious illness communication skills
00:13:52 - Take home points

Episode Resources:

• REMAP: A Framework for Goals of Care Conversations
• SPIKES - A Six-Step Protocol for Delivering Bad News:
  Application to the Patient with Cancer
• Associations Between End-of-Life Discussions, Patient Mental Health, 
  Medical Care Near Death, and Caregiver Bereavement Adjustment