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Family Conferences for Communicating Difficult News by Medical Residents Through the Lens of the SPIKES Protocol

2026-01-22

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Introduction: Communicating difficult news is a core physician responsibility, and the family conference (FC) is a structured strategy designed to alleviate patient and family suffering, clarify diagnosis and prognosis, and support shared decision-making. Objectives To describe audio-recorded FCs conducted by second-year Internal Medicine residents (IMR2) with patients facing incurabl...

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937a6d09-d2b4-59cb-8074-d553d2de1b39
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-8339327/v1
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