Medical trainees frequently report they do not feel prepared discuss death with patients and their families upon completion of their training. Utilizing a modified curriculum described in the literature, general pediatrics residents were taught a validated mechanism for communicating bad news and then practiced using the skills they learned either one-on-one with a standardized patient or in a group interview with a standardized patient. Preliminary results suggest the residents felt more comfortable practicing their newfound skills in a group interview with a standardized patient.
