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End-of-life / Palliative Care - California Required CME:

End-of-life / Palliative Care - California Required CME:

An Introduction to the Practice of Palliative Medicine
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....California, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Texas and West Virginia.

An Introduction to the Practice of Palliative Medicine will help you to:
• Utilize therapies intended to reduce or relieve distressing symptoms;
• Communicate better, including using active listening and shared decision-making;
• Coordinate care with health and spiritual professionals;
• Manage and support patients and family members experiencing death and bereavement; 
• Apply important ethical principles to patient care.

Culture & End of Life Care: Collaborating with Interdisciplinary Partners
Credit hours...1.5.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Meets Special CME Requirements in: California (End of Life and Geriatrics), Connecticut (Cultural Competence), Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

After completing this program, you should be better able to:
• Analyze advantages for using a skilled interpreter with limited English proficiency (LEP) patients or patients who don't speak English at all;
• Learn how and why to conduct a pre-session with an interpreter;
• Identify strategies for successful communication when working with an interpreter;
• Elicit the patient's perspective when a family member tries to speak for her;
• Encourage the patient to learn what Western medicine offers, so she can make an informed decision;
• Negotiate a treatment plan, offering your recommendations while respecting the patient's perspective;
• Collaborate with a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) provider to meet the patient's treatment goals;
• Build a lasting relationship with the patient;
• Observe that members of the same family and culture may hold different spiritual values;
• Identify several options for resolving conflicting values;
• Analyze the results when spiritual needs are addressed in planning end-of-life care;
• Analyze how different approaches to ethical decision making might lead to conflict between a physician and a nurse;
• Identify possible pitfalls in handling interdisciplinary conflict; and
• Assess strategies for addressing interdisciplinary conflicts effectively.

Culture & End of Life Care: Conversations with Patients and Families
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Meets Special CME Requirements in: California (End of Life and Geriatrics), Connecticut (Cultural Competence), Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

After completing this program, you should be better able to:
• Compare methods of giving bad news to a patient;
• Consider ways to respond when a patient is overwhelmed and raises questions that are difficult to answer;
• Identify a series of steps that physicians can take to examine and address their own emotions in order to preserve the quality of patient care and protect the physician's well-being;
• Elicit information from family members to clarify the incapacitated patient's motivations when she completed a living will;
• Sort the facts surrounding an ethical question in an end-of-life situation.
• Develop and consider options for resolving ethical issues;
• Give advice to patients about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) based on evidence;
• Negotiate treatment plans with patients who elect to use CAM along with conventional care; and
• Monitor patients' usage of CAM.

Culture & End of Life Care: Patients' Beliefs and Values
Credit hours...1.5.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Meets Special CME Requirements in: California (End of Life and Geriatrics), Connecticut (Cultural Competence), Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

After completing this program, you should be better able to:
• Ask questions that will help you gather information on the patient's Explanatory • Model, or understanding, of her illness experience;
• Organize your approach to culture using the LEARN mnemonic: Listen, Explain, • • Acknowledge, Recommend, and Negotiate;
• Elicit and respond to patients' faith-based values and goals for care;
• Enable patients to anticipate and consider aspects of the dying process they might not have considered;
• Facilitate communication with others who will be involved in patients' end-of-life care;
• Incorporate patients' values and preferences in advance care planning;
• Identify options for responding to requests from a patient's family that raise ethical questions;
• Analyze how to offer truth in order to elicit your patients' preferences;
• Negotiate solutions that respect patients' preferences as well as your ethical duty;
• Evaluate evidence for and against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices;
• Advise patients on the basis of evidence;
• Negotiate treatment plans with patients who incorporate CAM; and
• Build trust and promote open communication with patients.

Pain Management - California Required CME:

Pain Management - California Required CME:

Improving Outcomes in Chronic Pain
Credit hours...Up to 14.55 hours.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....California, Oregon, Rhode Island and West Virginia.

Improving Outcomes in Chronic Pain will help you to:
• Assess and measure pain and its effects on your patients;
• Choose appropriate therapies for chronic pain;
• Better manage common pain syndromes; and
• Safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.

Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain will help you to: 
• Diagnose and manage chronic low back pain;
• Utilize appropriate long-term opioid treatment; and
• Safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.

Recognizing and Managing Opioid Misuse
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

Recognizing and Managing Opioid Misuse will help you to:
• Utilize appropriate long-term opioid treatment;
• Diagnose and manage substance abuse disorders; and
• Safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.