by: Eric Widera ( @ewidera ) It was with some hesitancy I decided last year to take the VitalTalk Faculty Development course . Why the hesitancy? Honestly, I thought to myself that I've been doing palliative care for over a decade. I've taught fellows, residents, medical students, and a whole host of other health care professionals. I've wrote book chapters on this stuff. Plus, I've read everything that I could get my hands on from the VitalTalk creators Tony Back, James Tulsky, and Bob Arnold. What, I thought, am I going to get out of this? As it turned out, a lot. VitalTalk changed the way I teach communication. As one example, any of my fellows that I work with can now recite word for word the questions that they know I'll be asking at the end of a family meeting: "What is one thing that went well that you want to continue" and "what one thing do you want to do differently in the future?" These questions are part of the goal I