Auauniversity

Support provided by independent educational grants from AbbVie, Amgen, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genomic Health, Genentech, Merck, Pfizer, Inc. and Sanofi Genzyme CME Available: https://auau.auanet.org/node/24579 Instructional Course Director(s) Danil Makarov, MD photo Danil Makarov, MD New York University School of Medicine Instructional Course Faculty(s) Michael Barry, MD Harvard Medical School Angela Fagerlin, MD Chair, Department of Population Health Sciences Shared Decision Making was recently accepted as the standard of care when counseling patients considering PSA screening by the US Preventative Services Taskforce. Shared Decision Making is also embedded into numerous recently published AUA guidelines (including the localized prostate cancer guideline). In spite of these clear recommendations, Shared Decision Making is not frequently used in clinical practice. We propose a course that would teach the essentials of Shared Decision Making (SDM) to practicing urologists who he