GP TRAINING-GOAL-SETTING FOR PATIENTS LIVING WITH MULTIMORBIDITY

• A definition of goal-setting and its role in managing patients living with multimorbidity

• The three key steps in the goal-setting process:- patient preparation, eliciting goals, and collaborative action planning

• Putting goal-setting into practice with your own patients

• Reflecting on the experience of goal-setting and dealing with challenges

• Follow-up and review of goal attainment

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

• Recognise the role of patient preparation in the (initiation of) the goal-setting process

• Explore approaches to eliciting and legitimising goals through active listening and recognising patient cues

• Describe how to work collaboratively with patients to agree specific and realistic goals

• Apply learning to clinical practice with patients

• Evaluate the experience of applying goal-setting to real world practice

• Explore challenges to goal setting

• Identify how to discuss and record ongoing goal attainment over time with patients living with multimorbidity

• Summarise the goal-setting process

This course is designed for GPs of all levels (GP trainees, newly trained, qualified or experienced in general practice) looking to use goal-setting with patients living with multiple long term conditions.