The key learning objectives include enabling learners:

(1) to conduct and document a systematic assessment of a patient’s decision making capacity;

(2) to recognize clinical situations when the expertise of such specialists as neuropsychologists and/or psychiatrists may be important in difficult assessments;

(3) to recognize the consequences of determinations that a patient lacks decision making capacity in terms of Geisinger policy and important next steps; and,

(4) to work and empathize with, and effectively counsel surrogate decision makers for incapacitated patients.