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.