About this Event
Course 2 of 4 SMDM Core Courses
This course will provide participants with the fundamental components of shared decision making. Specifically, participants will learn the basics about shared decision making including why it is important, how it differs from other related clinical tools (e.g., motivational interviewing, evidence based medicine) and what shared decision making has been proven to do (and not do). We will also discuss how shared decision making occurs in practice, particularly how it can be improved in patient-physician discussions and how risk communication methods can improve decision making. We will briefly describe other interventions, such as decision support interventions, can promote shared decision making. Additionally, we will discuss evaluation measures for evaluating decision quality and decision aids. We will end by discussing implementation of shared decision making, particularly in terms of challenges from patients and clinicians perspectives.
There are no prerequisites for this introductory course.
About the Faculty:
Crystal Chu, PhD, RN, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at University of Virginia School of Nursing. She creates decision aids for women at risk for or with a breast cancer diagnosis. Chu is a past recipient (2024) of SMDM’s Young Scholar award. To help patients considering CPM understand its risks, as a PhD in nursing student Chu created, deployed, and tested a novel decision-making tool that offered a balance sheet-style checklist, based on the validated methodology of the DecisionKEYs protocol. Phase one of Chu’s research found the tool was success for patients considering CPMs; in phase two of her research, Chu will create a decision-making tool series for breast cancer patients across the clinical spectrum that will explore risk tolerance, clinical versus economic decision making, and decisional conflict.
Jody Lin, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and a health services researcher dedicated to advancing the lives of children with medical complexity and their families. Her work focuses on developing, implementing, and testing interventions that promote shared decision making. She leverages human-centered design and health communication principles to co-produce tools with families and providers of children with medical complexity. This dynamic approach ensures the work of her team meets the needs of the community they serve.
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