Congratulations to ACC’s CardioSmart Challenge winners, Drew Mendoza, MD, Marc Erickson, MD, and Muhammad Asim Shabbir, MD! The winners demonstrated the importance of shared decision-making conversations. You can read each of their essays, which focus on empowering patients to lead conversations about their care, figuring out the right treatment for patients with AFib, and the importance of listening to patients.
Learn more about shared decision-making and find CardioSmart tools to help facilitate those conversations with patients. Congratulations again to all the winners! They each will be featured in Cardiology magazine, receive free registration at ACC.23 in New Orleans, and will have the opportunity to present at the Program Directors and Graduate Medical Educators Symposium during the annual meeting.
CardioSmart worked with Cardiology Fellowship Program Directors across the country to help educate fellows-in-training about the importance of shared decision-making.
We asked fellows-in-training to use a CardioSmart tool with 5 patients and submit an essay about their experience to their Program Director. If the narrative effectively showed shared decision-making in action, they were eligible to be 1 of 3 winners.
CardioSmart/Patient Voice Team selected the Top 3 essays as winners.
These fellows will:
1. Fellows choose from three CardioSmart tools to use with five patients:
2. Fellows submit a narrative to their Program Director (750 words or less) via MS Word demonstrating that they engaged in a shared decision-making conversation using the tool with their patients. Narratives should include the following:
3. Program Directors will use a four-part grading rubric (see below) to select one fellow’s narrative to move on for final judging by the CardioSmart/Patient Voice Team:
4. Program Directors select the narrative from their program with the highest score and then email their pick to Arielle Fingerman at afingerman@acc.org with “Shared Decision-Making Challenge” in the subject line.
5. CardioSmart/Patient Voice Team will review all submissions and select the top three winners.
Let us know you’re participating by using #CardioSmart, #SharedDecisionMaking, or #CardioSmartChallenge on Twitter.