Lead with Compassion: Communication Skill-Building Workshop

Join us for a 2.5-day Healthcare Communication skill-building workshop for medical educators, physicians, nurses, and teaching artists. Through an interactive curriculum based in arts and humanities, this immersive session uncovers and develops your authentic style, and helps build your communication toolbox to become more adaptable when speaking with patients, students, funders, the media—and even your own family.

You’ll participate in discussions, innovative exercises, reflections, and build community to increase wellness. Our overarching goal is to rewire the way healthcare providers think about communication in medicine, and address the importance of awareness, self-healing, and self-compassion. This deep-dive experience can serve as a stand-alone opportunity or become your first step as a trainer to bolster your facilitation skills and learn ways of integrating these lessons into your curriculum. Our scaffolded program includes subsequent interactive sessions on Zoom, online modules with facilitation guides for integration into the classroom, and annual “booster” workshops to share best practices and help move the needle as a global community. Join the Center for Compassionate Communication to help us build stronger connections with patients, audiences, and ourselves.

1. Analyze and practice the value of perspective-taking in an emotional conversation
2. Recognize the value behind compassionate communication in medicine
3. Identify aspects of my identity that influence personal perspectives
4. Practice finding a third story to move out of conflict
5. Recognize the difficulty of describing emotion
6. Discover ways to lead communication encounters based on the needs of the listener
7. Practice ordering information with the headline
8. Practice emotional encounter through role-play
9. Recognize the ladder of inference and concepts of psychological safety
10. Practice dealing with emotion through roleplay
11. Reflect on challenges that hinder communication in emotional situations
12. Practice using inquiry to build connections in a feedback scenario
13. Describe concrete actions in the face of injustice
14. Demonstrate active listening skills
15. Describe successful techniques used in the past
16. Increase self-awareness and awareness of others
17. Practice attunement through roleplay
18. Evaluate the role of the bystander
19. Develop skills in narrative humility

REGISTRATION FEES Early Bird Rate  Late Rate starts on 10/8/24
on or before 10/7/24

General Registration $599 $699

For additional program information please visit: LEAD WITH COMPASSION HOMEPAGE

Cancellation Policy: The full course tuition is refundable, less $50 if your cancellation is received in writing on or before December 20, 2024. No refunds will be allowed after this date. Please send your cancellation request to [email protected]. In the unlikely event that the course is canceled, UC San Diego is responsible for a full refund of the registration fee only.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (report up to 16.50 hours of credit and list "CME Category 1" as the provider number).

Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing education for pharmacists coursework which meets the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and is accepted as continuing education by the Medical Board of California.

Psychologists: The California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for license renewal. Psychologists outside of California should check with their state and local boards to ensure that ACCME accredited activities are acceptable for renewal.

American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA): This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org,
for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.

American Board of Pathology (ABPath): The activity has been registered to offer credit in the American Board of Pathology’s Continuing Certification program on activity materials. This Lifelong Learning (CME) activity enables the participant to earn up to 16.50.

American Board of Surgery (ABS): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS): Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME  of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery’s Maintenance of Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABTS credit.

Accommodations: We are committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to all individuals. For general information or to request reasonable accommodations, please contact [email protected] at your earliest convenience. All in-person events are wheelchair accessible.  Service animals specifically trained to assist a person with a disability are welcome. No other animals, including pets, therapy animals, or emotional support animals, are allowed.

Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias: Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content. Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CPD website. 

Audio / Video Consent: This event may be audio and/or video recorded for future use or distribution. For virtual events, any engagement during the presentation (audio, video, chat, Q&A submission, etc.) will be captured and included. Participant microphones and cameras are generally disabled by default, and can always be manually disabled by participant. Depending on the type of event, publication of the recordings might be on a publicly available website or on an access-restricted site. By registering for this event, you give UC San Diego the right to use your name, voice, image, written text, or video footage without compensation and waive the right to inspect or approve any document in which these appear.

Covid-19 Health & Safety: We follow state and local guidelines and protocols related to COVID-19 safety measures. At this time, no restrictions are in place for the State of California and San Diego County.  We encourage each attendee to decide what works for them and wear a face mask if that is their preferred choice.  We reserve the right to update COVID related expectations at any time, should local and state guidelines change and prevailing COVID rates increase.

All persons in a position to control the content of accredited education must disclose all financial relationships held with ineligible companies, prior to assuming their role in the accredited activity. Those relationships deemed relevant to the education, are mitigated prior to the activity.

CME staff, meeting planners, peer reviewers, editorial staff, and CME committee reviewers, do not have any relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The UC San Diego School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.