Pathways To Trust – Hidden in Plain Sight: Bias, Diagnosis and Care in Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Connective Tissue Disorders
Hidden in Plain Sight: Bias, Diagnosis and Care in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Connective Tissue Disorders is an immersive educational experience designed to help healthcare professionals navigate some of the most complicated patient encounters in clinical practice. Through expert instruction, real-world case studies, theatrical pedagogy, audience engagement, and small-group discussion, participants will gain practical tools for evaluating, diagnosing, and managing patients whose symptoms are often misunderstood, dismissed, or attributed to other causes.
Key Features
- Connective Tissue Disorder Medical Expert Presentation
- Patient advocate personal testimony
- Patient encounter dramatization
Topics Covered
Patient presentation, multi-organ complications and co-morbidities, appropriate management of condition as well as necessry referrals, current research, treatment and diagnostic advances, navigating everyday life as a patient with a connective tissue disorder, and challenges to gtreatment compliance.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the clinical features of connective tissue disorders, including Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and associated co-occurring conditions
- Evaluate complex symptom presentations more effectively through focused, empathetic, and efficient patient encounters
- Assess connective tissue-related pain and formulate evidence-informed pain management strategies
- Develop practical approaches for coordinating care in patients with multisystem involvement and chronic symptoms
- Improve communication skills that build trust, strengthen therapeutic relationships, and enhance patient outcomes.
Target Audience
Physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners
Additional credit info
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Pathways To Trust. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this enduring material CME activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.5 contact hours.