Updates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Intensive Board Review 2016

Updates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Intensive Board Review is organized by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and would be held during Sep 13 - 15, 2016 at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America. The targeted audience for this medical event is basically for hospice and palliative care physicians, medical oncologists, family practice physicians, anesthesiologists, psychiatrists, fellows, advance practice nurses, and other health care professionals involved in hospice and palliative care. This CME conference has been approved with 25.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Educational Objectives :

After attending the conference, participants should be able to
• Interpret spiritual, legal and medical issues facing patients at end-of-life (knowledge, competence)
• Provide optimal end-of-life care including symptom management, psychosocial support and state-of-the-art pain management (knowledge, competence, performance, patient outcomes)
• Demonstrate effective communication techniques with patients in the advanced stages of cancer or debilitating disease and provide quality end-of-life care (knowledge, competence, performance, patient outcomes)
• Identify non-cancer conditions needing palliative care (knowledge, competence).

Goal :

Caring for the cancer patient in the advanced stages of disease is particularly challenging to the healthcare team. It requires attending to the many dimensions of care including medical, psychosocial, ethical, and spiritual needs. In its 11th year, the Updates in Hospice and Palliative Care and Physician Intensive Board Review will continue to offer healthcare professionals with educational updates to help them successfully incorporate new information into practice and take the board certification examination. In addition this course will be offered as Post Webinar Session to provide continued access to the content. Physicians, fellows and advanced nurse practitioners will gain the knowledge and competence pertaining to symptom and pain management, issues facing patients at end-of- life, and effective communication techniques to implement into clinical practice to improve patient care.