Conversations in Movement Disorders: Communication and Patient Safety

Discover how effective dialogue and feedback between patient and physician can help you achieve optimal patient outcomes.

Communication errors were the underlying cause of 65% of unexpected negative patient outcomes between 1995 and 2004, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. Learn how to improve your communication and patient safety with this new activity, Conversations in Movement Disorders: Communication and Patient Safety.

This ground breaking, media-rich learning experience addressing how physician-patient communication impacts patient safety and offers methods for improving interpersonal communication. Learners will:

• Be asked to identify their personal communication style and then observe reenactments of actual clinical situations and patient interviews
• Hear about physiatrists’ own experiences regarding the impacts of communication breakdowns as well as examples of successful efforts
• Learn to identify the traits of four distinct communication styles and how to adjust to them in real-time situations resulting in an increase in understanding between patients, physicians and other medical professionals, enhance the flow of information and ultimately, improve patient outcomes.

AAPM&R collaborated with WEMOVE, a not-for-profit organization that develops education focused on movement disorders, to develop this activity.

This activity has been supported by an educational grant from Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC.