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Patient and Family Support
Concurrent

Stand and Deliver

Monday, March 23, 2026
9:45 AM - 11:45 AM Central Time
Location: W186

    Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

  • Rajit Basu, MD, MS, FCCM (he/him/his)

    Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

    Disclosure(s): BioPorto: Consultant (Ongoing); Daxor: Scientific Advisory Board (Ongoing); Seastar Medical: Advisory Board (Ongoing); Vantive: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)

What do you do when an unexpected family situation throws gum into the works and the best-laid plans for your patient are constantly undermined? How do you adapt to an impossible clinical situation with the demands of patient stabilization at the forefront? How do you choose the right words in a situation requiring mutual allegiance? Critical care medicine requires intelligence, dedication, and passion. Being an excellent clinician requires more—adaptability, resilience, collaboration, and improvisation. How good are we when the stakes change and the spotlight shines down? This flipped classroom session will follow improvisation in medicine curricula used at a number of universities. After practicing skill listening, attendees will be brought up on stage to partner with The Second City Chicago actors to test improvisation in medicine. Lessons will be adapted from the medical literature on improvisation coursework in medical training.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss strategies for handling unexpected family situations that undermine the care team’s treatment plan
  • Practice adapting observational skills to difficult patient stabilization situations
  • Practice responding to a situation with the words “yes and” in a situation requiring mutual allegiance

Presentations:

  • 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM Central Time
    Stand and Deliver

    Michael G S Shashaty, MD, MS, FCCM (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

  • 10:10 AM - 11:45 AM Central Time
    Yes, And-Admired Leadership

    Kelly Leonard (he/him/his) – The Second City