Early Career Webinar Series: Communication Skills and Working with a Multidisciplinary Team
Effective communication is one of the pillars of providing breast imaging care both through patient-centered encounters and leading of multidisciplinary care teams. Effective patient-centered communication in breast imaging is one of the main modifiable factors associated with healthcare disparities and overall patient-outcomes as well as impacting radiologists’ well-being.
In this live webinar, Dr. Dodelzon discusses the evidence-based impact of effective patient-radiologist communication on both patient outcomes and radiologists’ well-being, reviews evidence-based steps in achieving an effective patient-centered encounter along the entire breast imaging care continuum, and provides an approach to working and leading a multidisciplinary team. This webinar will enable attendees to recognize the importance of patient-centered communication and multidisciplinary collaboration, and come up with strategies to ensure effective patient-centered communication across common challenging patient encounters thus providing tools which can be employed by the attendees’ in their own practice setting.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the evidence supporting effective communication and both improved patient health outcomes and radiologist's well-being.
- Highlight the role of the breast radiologist in a multidisciplinary team.
- Review the steps of effective patient-centered communication interaction.
- Provide strategies to effective patient-centered encounters in the setting of common challenging patient encounters.
Dr. Katerina (Katia) Dodelzon is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in the division of Women’s Imaging. She serves as the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Associate Director of Breast Imaging Fellowship at Weill Cornell. Katia’s research interests include optimization of breast cancer screening across diverse population and gender/racial inequality within radiology. In addition, Katia’s areas of professional interest include curricula development and teaching techniques to better equip residents, fellows and medical students for the evolving nature of the field of Radiology; as such, she has led a department-wide initiative on patient-centered communication and developed other communication skill curricula specific to breast imaging. Katia can be followed on Twitter and/or email.
