Effective patient-centered care translates the art of medicine into defined and learnable skills. These skills include exploring the patient's needs and beliefs and the physician’s response to the patient. Through a series of articles, online activities and clinical applications, you will be introduced to the concepts of patient-centered care (PCC), mindfulness and clinical judgment. We hope you will continue to work on these skills throughout your medical education and career.

Week 1:

• Read Relationship, Communication and Efficiency: Creating a clinical model from a literature review.
  
  
• Read Assess-Inform-Discuss-Decide (AIDD): A process orientated discussion guide to achieve informed and shared decision making."
  
  
• View the video: Relationship, Communication and Time Use - Creating A Model.This link will take you to the CME website. Select "Family Medicine" then "Relationship, Communication and Time Use - Creating A Model " Please note that you will be unable to print the slides that accompany this lecture.
  

Week 2:

• Complete the Improving Communication Assessment online module and learn how to use the Patient Centered Observation Form.
  
  
• Observe your preceptor interviewing a patient using the Patient Centered Observation form.
  

Week 3:

• Ask faculty to rate your patient-centered interviewing skills using the Patient Centered Observation Form and ask faculty for feedback.
  
  
• View the video "Patient Centered Care and Using the the EHR." Using the Patient Centered Observation form consider items 14-16 and compare the OK and Better sections of the video encounter.
  
  
• Read EHR in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care.
  

Week 4:

• Ask faculty to rate your patient-centered interviewing skills using the Patient Centered Observation Form and ask faculty for feedback.
  
  
• Read about clinical judgment "Developing Professional Judgment” by Dr. Colin Coles
  
  
• Read about mindfulness "Mindful Practice" by Dr. Ronald Epstein. Be sure to review the discussion questions at the end of the article.
  

Weeks 5:

• Ask faculty to rate your patient-centered interviewing skills using the Patient Centered Observation Form and ask faculty for feedback.
  

Weeks 6:

• Discuss your experiences with the patient-centered care curriculum with your primary preceptor at the end of clerkship review meeting.