Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Identify strategies to activate patients in the decision-making conversation
2. Critique current patterns of communication that do little to assist decision making or prepare patients for surgery
3. Describe novel strategies to engage patients in decision making

Faculty

Margaret Schwarze, MD, MPP
Professor of Surgery
University of Wisconsin

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.