Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) Training

"The overall training goal of this 2.25 hour module ECS module is to enhance OCP recognition and responsiveness to lung cancer patients' empathic opportunities by communicating understanding, alleviating stigma and distress, and providing support. The ECS training also provides tools to OCPs to buffer/inoculate patients against stigmatizing attitudes and behaviors by others such that lung cancer patients who currently or formerly smoked can be given small doses of an opposing viewpoint (termed as preparing patients for recurring smoking questions) and suggestions of counterarguments in order to make them resistant to future stigmatizing attacks by others"

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