Updates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Intensive Physician Board Review Course 2019

Updates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Intensive Physician Board Review Course is organized by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and will be held from Sep 24 - 26, 2019 at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

Target Audience:
This activity is targeted to physicians and fellows as a board review course for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board Certification, though some Advanced Practice Nurses may find the information beneficial.

Accreditation/Credit Designation/Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Information:
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 24.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Ethics:
The sessions marked with “*” have been designated by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for 10.75 AMA PRACategory 1 Credits™ in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.

MOC Points:
American Board of Internal Medicine: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 24.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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 15th year, the Updates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Intensive Physician Board Review Course will continue to offer healthcare professionals with educational updates to help them successfully incorporate new information into practice and take the board certification examination. 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.
It is expected that participants will be able to implement systematic management of pain symptoms, be able to assess the moral, ethical and psychosocial dilemmas facing clinicians during the end of life, demonstrate effective communication techniques with patients in the advanced stages of cancer or debilitating disease and provide optimal care for noncancer conditions in a hospice and palliative care setting, thus improving end-of-life care while providing quality end-of-life care.

Educational Objectives:
After attending the activity, 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).