Applied Health Literacy: Using Teach-Back in Conversations about Clinical Research - The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard
October 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
October is Health Literacy Month! Please join us on Thursday, October 30, from 12 – 1 PM ET for a webinar to explore teach-back (TB) within the clinical research context.
We begin with teach-back—its essential elements, how to use it, and why it is important to safe, high-quality, equitable health care and research. We then explore approaches for incorporating teach-back into different types of clinical research conversations.
The session will center on the importance of strong verbal communication skills and the ways teach-back can be used by study teams to foster clear, impactful, and empowering dialogue with patients, participants, and caregivers.
We will explore how study teams can simplify complex verbal information through plain language, assess and confirm understanding via teach-back throughout the recruiting and informed consent process, and support participant understanding throughout their clinical research experience. Registrants will receive tips and resources to support incorporating this best practice into their everyday clinical research processes.
Objectives:
- Explain what teach-back is, its importance, and why to use it;
- Describe approaches that support incorporating teach-back into clinical research conversations across the clinical trial life cycle;
- Identify and access resources that explain how to use teach-back.