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Palliative Care Training Course in an FQHC Setting
Program Information
With support from IDPH, IPHCA is working with leaders at the University of Chicago and the Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program to offer a third cycle of the Palliative Care Training (PCT) for FQHC staff and leaders. The goal of this program is to educate decision makers at FQHCs about the benefits of providing palliative care or providing a referral for palliative care for patients with cancer from the time of diagnosis. This is a free, virtual training program that aims to enhance communication skills for providers who care for seriously ill patients across the lifespan. Session recordings will be available for on demand learning and CME/CE credits are pending for physicians, APPs, and social workers who attend all sessions. The course will include six recorded on-demand sessions and option to participate in three additional sessions if interested.
Course sessions include the following:
- Courageous Communication: Exploring Everyday Challenges in Serious Illnesses
- Palliative Care: What You Need to Know
- Cultural humility and Implicit Bias & Pre-work: Race IAT
- Barriers to Access to Palliative Care and End of Life Care
- Coaching Patients on What to Ask Oncologist • Advance Care Planning Through a Health Equity Lens
- Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders in Palliative Care
- Spiritual Assessment: Beyond Screening, Beyond Religion
- Frail and Multi-Morbid Patients in Palliative Care
Target Audience
This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physicians
- Physician Associates/Assistants
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Pharmacists
- Other members of the team
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Gain knowledge on the importance and benefits of providing palliative care or a referral to palliative care to patients
- Learn skills to strengthen patient-clinician interactions, communication, medical decision-making, and continuity of care around palliative care.
AMA Designation Statement
Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. designates this Live activity and Enduring material for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
Planners & Presenters
- Naila Al Hasni, MPH, Associate Director of Clinical Quality Improvement at IPHCA
- Cheri Hoots, RN, Chief Operating Officer, at IPHCA
- Aliza Baron, A.M., Education and Research Project Manager at University of Chicago
- Stacie Levine, MD, CMD, FAAHPM, Professor and Chief, Section of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at University of Chicago
Disclosures
- No planners or presenters indicated any financial disclosures for this activity.
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Illinois Primary Health Care Association and Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc./Weitzman Institute. Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Additional credits are available for Physician Assistants/Associates.
By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).
Please note that continuing education credit requirements differ by state, jurisdiction, and licensing agency. It is your responsibility to confirm if your licensing/credentialing agency will accept the credits offered by this activity.
Available Credit
- 9.00 AAPA Category I CMEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 9.00 ACE/ASWBThrough Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
- 9.00 ACPEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) credit to pharmacists at its activities.
- 9.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
- 9.00 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 9.00 APAThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities.
- 9.00 Participation Hour(s)You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
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