Publications by authors named "A H Lawton"
Mentoring is crucial to professional success, but little is known about the professional development needs of mid-career hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) clinicians. An interprofessional "friendtor" group of five HPM clinicians from three academic medical centers met monthly and for a year-end focus group. A thematic analysis was used to develop a coding structure and identify overarching themes from these discussions.
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- Pediatric cardiology fellows often need to communicate serious news to families and effective communication is vital for building relationships and improving health outcomes.
- A 3-hour training session using VitalTalk methodology focused on teaching fellows how to deliver difficult news and handle emotional responses, including role play with actors to practice skills.
- After the training, all 9 participating fellows reported enhanced preparedness and comfort in discussing challenging topics related to pediatric cardiology, such as new congenital heart disease diagnoses and poor prognoses.
Therapeutic clinical relationships and skilled communication are foundational elements of high-quality hospice and palliative care. Both require that we draw on the most valuable, yet limited, resource in our practice: clinician time. As the demand for serious illness care continues to outpace the supply of trained palliative care clinicians, we must consider time-efficiency as a key component of clinical effectiveness.
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