Teaching Decision-Making Capacity: An Asynchronous Workshop Model-View Presentation

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The workshop, led by Kara Angelotta and Brittany Goldstein from Northwestern University, focuses on teaching decision-making capacity using a structured model. The session starts with understanding the audience's background, primarily psychiatry residents, and their settings. The workshop includes a curriculum overview and practice sessions aimed at teaching medical students and trainees how to assess decision-making capacity. This involves asynchronous and synchronous learning components, utilizing online modules for foundational knowledge and in-person workshops for skill practice. Participants engage in role-playing exercises to simulate capacity assessment, which are later debriefed to discuss outcomes and challenges. <br /><br />The curriculum is designed to build competencies in assessing decision-making capacity across medical fields, emphasizing that all physicians need this skill regardless of their specialty. The workshop also addresses teaching ethical considerations and practical challenges when assessing capacity. Feedback and adaptation of the curriculum for broader applications, including for non-psychiatric and professional practice teams, are encouraged. The workshop highlights common misconceptions and issues like capacity assessment being confused with persuasion, and how to handle cases where the patient presents psychiatric illnesses that may affect their decision-making ability.

Keywords

decision-making capacity

psychiatry residents

medical education

curriculum development

role-playing exercises

ethical considerations

capacity assessment

interdisciplinary training