Shared Decision Making

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module, participants should be able to:

1. Understand the ethical and legal reasons why shared decision making is a basic principle of good clinical practice
2. Know the range of attitudes in patients and health professionals that can act as barriers or facilitators for SDM 
3. Track the processes by which evidence from clinical trials is used to inform patients of choices within clinical consultations
4. Access and critique the tools that are available for SDM in their clinical area
5. Apply the communication skills which can facilitate SDM to the context they work in
6. Apply the lessons of one-time decision making to a continuous dialogue over time with individual patients
7. Share their SDM skills with colleagues in the own clinical teams and teach them to others
8. Communicate the uncertainties which need to be dealt with in all clinical decision-making

Who is the course for?

Clinicians from primary and secondary care holding degree-level qualifications in medicine, nursing or dentistry.

Faculty

• Professor Richard Lehman
• Sam Finnikin

Where will this course be held?

Medical School (B1 on campus map), University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT.

The University is easily accessible by train, the University Station is only two stops from Birmingham New Street.

 There are two hotels on campus, both within a 10 minute walk of the Medical School.

Edgbaston park Hotel (G23 on campus map)

Lucas House Hotel (G16 on campus map)