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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
