BECOME A CERTIFIED MEDICAL HARM COMMUNICATOR

Certified Medical Harm
Communicator
Course.

Built on real-world experience and evidence-based practices, this course equips healthcare professionals with tools to meet the ethical, legal, and organizational demands of transparent, responsible communication. You’ll gain actionable strategies to navigate disclosure conversations, support patients and families, and sustain effective Communication and Resolution Programs. The course offers CME credit for healthcare professionals, making the course, practical, strategic and actionable.

For the most complete training, we encourage learners to take the full certification course, which builds skills step by step and provides formal recognition of completion with a certificate.

  • Training 1.

    Why This Work Matters
    Training 1 centers on a simple idea: patients and families deserve honest explanations after medical harm. It links disclosure to trust, culture, financial risk, and regulation—showing how silence adds harm while communication supports healing. Drawing on extensive research, real stories, and the Trust Triangle framework, participants see why disclosure is a professional, regulatory and moral obligation.

  • Training 2.

    Communicating with Clarity & Care
    Training 2 focuses on the practical foundations of harm communication—shared language, preparing as a team, and approaching disclosure with practical presence. It guides participants in leading conversations with empathy and professionalism, even when facts are incomplete. It also covers how to craft calls and letters that sustain trust and provide patients and families with clarity.

  • Training 3.

    Access, Authority & Clear Communication Training 3 focuses on the legal and organiza-tional rules shaping harm conversations. Participants learn how to confirm who has the right to receive information, what records can be shared, and how to communicate within HIPAA, Title VI, and ADA requirements. The training emphasizes preparation, clarity, and respectful dialogue ensuring patients and families are informed and supported throughout the review process.

  • Training 4.

    Carrying It Forward—Sustaining Communication After Harm
    Training 4 turns practice into a durable program—showing how to measure CRPs to align with evolving CMS Patient Safety Structural Measures. Extensive FAQs navigate common challenges. It concludes with a reminder to learners that sustaining transparency is about honoring patients, families, and colleagues with compassion, and accountability.

Who should take this course?

This training is designed for clinicians, risk managers, social workers, insurers, and healthcare leaders involved in responding to medical harm. It offers CME credits for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dentists, and social workers. The course is also a practical way to bring teams up to speed on Communication and Resolution Programs, giving staff across roles a shared language and framework for transparent, compassionate communication.

Pricing

$270 per individual learner

$210 per learner for groups of three or more

$99 for individual Trainings 1-4.

Annual renewal training fee: $70 per learner