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Key Points Question What were hospital clinicians’ experiences and perceptions of the Serious Illness Care Program (SICP), a multifaceted capacity-building intervention to improve communication with patients who are seriously ill? Findings In this qualitative study including 23 clinicians from 2 hospitals in Canada, clinicians stated that the various structural and organizational elements of the SICP supported changes in their behavior, shifted the focus of goals-of-care conversations beyond discussion of resuscitation preferences (ie, code status), and influenced them on personal and professional levels. Meaning The findings of this study suggest that clinicians may find the SICP helpful in supporting them to engage in meaningful communication that goes beyond discussion of code status with patients who are hospitalized with serious illness.