Our Courses

Astute Doctor CME-accredited communication courses provide strategies to help maximize every physician-patient encounter. Build new skills to help guide patients toward positive health outcomes. Purchase individual courses or buy the Astute Doctor Bundle that includes our six most popular courses. Contact us for group rates if you have 10 or more participants.

  • Building Strong Patient Relationships

    Build strong rapport with patients quickly, gain your patient’s respect, and improve patient experience. This course shows how to facilitate an open, productive dialogue and achieve breakthroughs in patient understanding and acceptance.

  • Eliciting Patient Concerns

    Encourage early disclosure of patient concerns, optimize encounter time management, and improve patient experience. This course shows how to prioritize patient concerns, build trust, elicit important information early, and respond to patients using empathy.

  • Doctor and patient communication

    Patient-Centered Information Gathering

    Uncover deeper insights into patient symptoms, achieve earlier, more accurate diagnoses and improve patient experience. This course shows how to facilitate patient-centered encounters, gather critical information, increase patient understanding, and encourage medication adherence.

  • Maximizing Patient Understanding and Recall

    Make your treatment instructions more memorable, deliver simple explanations that patients understand, and improve patient experience. This course shows how to build patient understanding, improve medication adherence, and facilitate patient recall at the right time.

  • Motivating Patients

    Identify when a patient is ready for change, overcome ambivalence, and improve patient experience. This course shows how to uncover personal drivers for lifestyle changes, gain patient commitment, and increase treatment adherence through motivational interviewing.

  • Setting Mutually Agreed Goals

    Understand patient health goals, engage patients in decision making, and improve patient experience. This course shows how to work with patients to set mutual goals, overcome barriers to goal achievement, and negotiate with patients to find common ground.


CME Accredited

Our courses have been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and Astute Doctor Education, Inc. The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.