Project description

The data in this package aims at educating medical students and health professionals on how to break bad news.

Content (N.B.: Interviews are in Arabic with English subtitles)
Video critique: ​What if the patient does not want to know?
Trigger 1: Yes it happened!
Scenario 1
Clips 1, 2: Unfolding the story
Trigger 2: Hide and seek
Clip 3: Preparing the patient
Clips 4-7: Disclosure and the aftermath
Clip 8: Dissecting feelings
Clip 9: Health professionals, heal thyself
Trigger 3: Briefing family members
Scenario 2: More complexities
Trigger 4: Not all bad news is death-related
Key for video critique
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Objectives

This series will help students and professionals
identify the importance of breaking bad news properly.
list the characteristics of a proper setting in which to break bad news.
demonstrate how to prepare the patient for bad news.
identify patients’ responses that permit you to break bad news.
show how to gradually disclose bad news.
show how to work with the family for better outcomes.
name strategies that help health professionals cope with the effect of telling bad news.
demonstrate how to talk to the family about organ donation.​

Researchers

Keywords

Speech communication