Catholic Medical Association (CMA) 90th Annual Educational Conference

Catholic Medical Association (CMA) 90th Annual Educational Conference is organized by Catholic Medical Association (CMA) and will be held from Oct 07 - 09, 2021 at Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America. This conference also held as Virtual.

Session Details:
End of Life Forum and NFP Forum - October 6, 2021
90th Annual Educational Conference - October 7-9, 2021

Theme: “The Joy of Medicine”

Objectives:
• List actions that can bring wholeness back to the medical profession, despite the ongoing presence of suffering.
• Differentiate between different lived experiences of the rapid telehealth adoption of 2020.
• Assess other physicians' methods of practicing telehealth safely and effectively.
• Describe the adoption of telehealth in 2020.
• Describe joy through the service of others and therefore find meaning in your vocation as physicians.
• Identify the beautiful harmony between faith and reason that exists in Lourdes.
• Indicate what it takes to serve on a medical team organizing an international pilgrimage caring for maladies and all those on the pilgrimage.
• Discuss collegiality and fellowship that develops among medical team members serving on a pilgrimage.
• List three examples of the Church’s influence on the modern concept of the medical profession.
• Identify at least three characteristics of St. Philip Neri’s ministry that were countercultural in his day.
• Identify areas of conflict between contemporary secular medical culture and Catholic teaching in which the Church may be viewed as countercultural.
• Describe the difference between joy and happiness, and how joy can be understood in the context of our professional lives.
• Indicate the ways participants might reconceptualize a source of suffering in his/her own -Describe the impact of play on human performance and well being.
• Identify how compassion is neuro-scientifically distinct from empathy in the clinician.
• Describe how compassion as opposed to empathy provides a buffer from burnout in the career of the clinician.
• Describe the two states of appraisal that determine whether adrenaline enhances cognitive or physical performance.
• Identify the attentional network that counteracts the inward collapsing of attention into one's thoughts. Discuss the way in which one's approach to work changes depending on whether one uses primarily the right or left hemisphere.
• Identify one thing you learned during the conference and apply it to the practice of medicine and commit to following up with a colleague at the conference in one week - one month - and three months - to report progress.
• Discuss the speaker’s personal story of how he discovered joy and was able to wean off anti-anxiety medication.
• Describe how administration leads to a joyful life in medical practice.
• Examine the ways in which administration can prevent burnout.
• Describe the key features of a practice that is primarily based on a house call model mixed with modern technology.
• Discuss how Direct Primary Care empowers patients and enriches medical professionals by truly restoring the Doctor-Patient relationship.
• Discuss evidence-based best practices for telehealth care.
• Evaluate how to improve telehealth bedside manner.
• Differentiate the misconceptions of joy with the true meaning of Joy.
• Examine the critical roles of nurses and health educators in the delivery of an effective health care.
• Analyze how charting for ovulation to be an essential tool in regaining one’s health and dignity.
• Describe how Joy is attained through authentic friendship.
• Illustrate how, as a medical community, we need to be first and foremost successful in addressing our patients' needs.
• Illustrate that thriving personally, especially in relationships, directly impacts physician care and propensity to burnout.
• Cite specific examples of literature and personal experiences that demonstrate how marriage between medical professionals can be a positive protective factor against divorce, helpful in personal and job satisfaction, and improve physician performance and well-being.
• Examine the benefits breastfeeding provides to the baby and mother.
• Cite the challenges to helping mothers meet or exceed their breastfeeding goals.
• Discuss ankyloglossia and the different grading/classifying systems.
• Analyze the current indications for the frenotomy procedure.
• Describe the theology of the body and how breastfeeding fits in.
• Appraise and apply principles of personhood and life to discuss the realities of Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia as a breach of our humanity and calling in life.
• Define faith-based friendship and its meaning.
• Apply faith-based tenets to physician communication, interpersonal skills, and professionalism
• Examine how faith-based friendships nurture physicians.
• Define children with medical complexity.
• Describe the current culture’s view on children with medical complexity regarding balancing cost awareness with quality patient care.
• Explain the perspectives of Jerome Lejune, and John Paul II on special needs children.
• Examine the importance of the healthcare continuum (NICU, outpatient, and inpatient settings) in caring for children with medical complexity.
• Discuss the recommendations for natural family planning services as presented in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae.
• Describe the theory, practice, and medical application natural family planning courses and program at a Catholic University.
• List examples of physicians’ and health professionals’ satisfaction and creativity in providing natural family planning services.
• Describe the need for additional training in pro-life advocacy and leadership.
• Identify the mission, goals, and objectives of the Advocacy for Life Seminar for developing knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to build a Hippocratic medical practice.
• Evaluate the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of the Advocacy for Life Seminar.
• Describe additional avenues to support Hippocratic advocacy.
• Describe the concept of AMDG Senior Concierge and Consulting Hybrid Practice.
• Discuss challenges of implementing Dr. Gloth's hybrid paradigm in other sociodemographic settings.
• Assess Patient Satisfaction with the AMDG Senior Concierge Hybrid option.
• Identify positive sources of growth in the stressors of the pandemic.
• Identify ways to apply technological advances in the service of adaptation to stress.
• Define what it means to have Joy in Medicine.
• List ways to pursue Joy as a physician.
• Discuss how I pursued joy as a physician with radio.
• Recommend ways to evaluate opportunities for listeners to pursue Joy.
• Illustrate the benefits of pursuing Joy in Medicine.
• Describe how to remain joyful in a medical marriage despite all the challenges.
• Utilize multiple examples to describe strategies to sustain joy as a physician working long hours under pressure.
• Illustrate that thriving personally, especially in relationships, directly impacts physician care and propensity to burnout.
• Cite specific examples of literature and personal experience showing that marriage between medical professionals can be a positive protective factor against divorce, helpful in personal and job satisfaction, and improve physician performance and well-being.
• Describe the prevalence of reproductive loss and impact on the individual and healthcare system.
• Discuss communication approaches that facilitate emotional healing rather than those that intensify anguish.
• Utilize a variety of ways to promote emotional healing after a reproductive loss.
• Describe the extent of life-limiting antenatal conditions and scope of perinatal palliative practice.
• Identify the risks for burnout and compassion fatigue for perinatal palliative care providers.
• Incorporate at least three aspects of professional development into an individualized resilience plan.
• Discuss the results of recent research demonstrating the lack of education about Fertility Awareness Based Methods in medical schools as compared to other reproductive health topics.
• Summarize the science behind Fertility Awareness Based Methods in reproductive health issues.
• Examine the FACTS online elective for medical students and health care providers.
• Illustrate through examples of patient cases how FACTS students learn how to use Fertility Awareness Based Methods to diagnose and treat reproductive health problems.
• Discuss the history of breakthrough medical developments which routinely influence medicine today.
• Use reflective storytelling format to provide daily examples of medical miracles.
• Discuss the development of reflective story or testimonial by participants for last third of breakout session.
• Identify how peer connection as a mechanism to maintain joy can be beneficial in the healthcare vocation.
• Discuss approaches to physician resilience that are currently employed.
• Use principles of teaching in Lasallian spirituality to core competencies of medical education.
• Utilize Lasallian principles within medical education to implement a faith-based approach to physician resilience and patient-physician interpersonal and communication skills.
• Define the difference between referral and transfer of care.
• Define complicity.
• Illustrate how in-practice-transfer of care differs from referral.
• Describe how to remain joyful in a medical marriage despite all the challenges.
• Utilize multiple examples to describe strategies to sustain joy as a physician working long hours under pressure.
• Define the abortion pill rescue program.
• Describe how the abortion pill rescue was established in UK.
• Evaluate the rescue treatment outcomes after 1 year of abortion pill rescue.
• Describe ways that service development will improve outcomes for abortion pill rescue.
• Define use disorder and MAT (medication assisted treatment).
• Describe treating patients with substance use disorder in primary care setting
• Examine the concepts of harm reduction.
• Discuss how to encourage self awareness/bias regarding patients with substance use disorder.
• Identify education strategies to generate awareness of the benefits of restorative care.
• List the benefits of a GYN practice consistent with Catholic principles.
• Illustrate a business model for growing a GYN practice anchored in Catholic principles.
• Discuss the leading role doctors can play in maintaining the human dignity of the individual regardless of age, sex, religion, and color.
• Examine the underlying basis of an authentic doctor-patient relationship.
• Identify the mutual respect of our human dignity as the starting point of the doctor-patient relationship.
• Illustrate how, as clinicians, we need to be successful in addressing our patients' needs.
• Describe how, as clinicians, we need to ground our treatment approaches on solid factual evidence.
• Differentiate medical protocols that go against the Natural Law and those that not only conform but restore our nature.
• Identify areas in medicine where conscience protections are under attack.
• Describe the role of conscience in medicine.
• Discuss the new initiative of the Religious Freedom Institute that focuses on medical conscience rights.
• Discuss how joy in medicine comes from giving ourselves away to our patients, particularly when we meet them in their suffering.
• Differentiate between happiness and joy.
• Use a personal story to illustrate how years of anxiety in medicine were transformed into joy, and how this benefits staff and patients.
• Describe how the emotions of love and joy are “positive” emotions.
• Discuss how the emotions of love and joy correlate with physician satisfaction in their work.
-Analyze how the guiding concept of insight, as developed by the philosopher and theologian Bernard JF Lonergan, illuminates the joy experienced in diagnosis ('getting through to knowing’)
• Cite examples of how diagnosis reveals itself as a recurrent pattern of personal experience with 6 attributes.
• Assess Father Lonergan’s ‘understanding of human understanding’ how 7 features of diagnosis produce ‘a quite distinct activity of arranging intelligence that places the full set of clues in a unique explanatory perspective.’
• Describe diagnosis as an intelligent activity, Lonergan’s 10 characteristics of insight as sources of joy both in diagnosis and in combat with the causes of misdiagnosis.
• Identify the limited but real joy discoverable in quotidian attainment of truth about how things are through diagnosis.
• Identify the personality factors that limit the healthcare professional's development of meaningful relationships with colleagues.
• Utilize techniques and methods that enhance the impact of the introverted healthcare professional on colleagues and co-worker
• Design a personal plan to overcome the hesitation that introverted healthcare professionals experience in developing interpersonal relationships with colleagues.
• Evaluate the healthcare professional's personality on the introvert/extrovert spectrum.
• Identify the ethical imperatives arising from authoritative Catholic teaching regarding the care of seriously ill and dying persons.
• Analyze the language of “overzealous treatment” as employed by Pope Francis in his address to the Pontifical Academy for Life (2017).
• Discuss the teaching and terminology employed by the Catholic Church in response to certain questions concerning artificial nutrition and hydration, especially as applied to patients in a minimally conscious state or who have been classified to be in a persistent vegetative state.
• Identify the importance of caring for patients using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Describe treatment of symptoms in patients with life limiting illness.
• Utilize an interdisciplinary team to assess components of patient suffering (physical, Spiritual, emotional.
• Discuss the practitioner’s role in correctly recognizing patients as being trafficked.
• Describe the ways in which health care practitioners must care for patients who are actively being trafficked or have been trafficked.
• Identify how practitioner bias and assumptions can impact the care of trafficked patients.
• Discuss the implications of failing to appropriately identify patients as being trafficked.
• List the “red flags” of trafficking in presenting patients.
• Differentiate between palliative medicine and hospice care.
• Discuss palliative medicine and hospice care and how and when theses services can be appropriate and helpful.
• Discuss the care models and elucidate the multidisciplinary nature of hospice and palliative medicine.
• Discuss impact of healthcare financing system on patient care and physicians.
• Describe how the healthcare system has changed due to financing system.
• Assess healthcare the financing system relative to Catholic social teaching.
• Evaluate alternative financing approaches.
• Discuss how to improve education around palliative medicine and hospice.
• Illustrate examples of humanizing work in palliative care.
• List ways that palliative care can be practiced authentically according to Church teachings.
• List practical tips to ward off burnout.
• Describe ways to strengthen faith in the midst of struggles in school/training.
• Discuss how to use encouragement to help physicians stay passionate and positive in medical practice.
• Discuss the field of bioethics and the role of the well-formed Catholic physician within it.
• Cite practical examples and cases on sample ethical consults.
• Identify feasible ways that one can involve oneself in ethics as a physician.
• Describe Chronic Care Management.
• List the CMS requirements for dementia screening.
• Discuss ways to improve clinic finances.
• Discuss common threads in communication challenges around delivering serious news.
• Analyze obstacles (patient and provider) to effective communication around serious news.
• Describe skills that are most effective in maneuvering pitfalls of challenging conversations.
• Discuss strategies for physicians to experience greater joy in practice despite the challenges we face.
• Discuss physician factors that influence our sense of meaning and purpose in medicine.
• List three specific changes to incorporate in daily practice to recapture joy while at work.
• Discuss methods to provide joyful care to patients affected by cancer and their families.
• Cite effective spiritual strategies advocated by St. John Paul II to enhance the level of care provided to patients.
• Identify approaches to optimize management of the dying.
• Discuss the foundations of Natural Law.
• Summarize the evidence of the biopsychosocial effects of Oxytocin.
• Describe the agreement of the conclusions of Natural Law and Natural Science.
• Describe an authentically Catholic approach to fertility care.
• List common conflicts between Catholic teaching and the common approach to fertility management.
• Identify how participating in, and understanding research, is crucial to the practice of medicine for ALL physicians.
• Illustrate how non-academic physicians can be active participants in research.
• List the four aspects of the human person and how they relate to medical education in the vocation of medicine.
• Integrate a concept of virtue with an authentic philosophy of medicine and show how this prevents burnout for the physician-as-teacher.
• Describe the current state of laws regarding assisted suicide throughout the country.
• Describe the current stance of major medical organizations and specific options for strengthening policies opposing assisted suicide.
• Discuss the "slippery slope" and ineffectiveness of so-called "safeguards" in protecting patients -List the conscious protection currently in place to protect doctors from being forced to participate in unethical practices.
• List various legal organizations and their activities that support ethical medical practices.
• Describe and relate two infant mental health based relational concepts to joy-filled clinical work within their medical subspecialty.
• Identify a scenario in their subspecialty and apply one infant mental health concept for adding joy to the doctor-patient relationships.
• Summarize how the thinking framework of infant mental health can be used to help understand data on nocebo and placebo effects in medicine.
• Name two specific medical situations where a wider frame of infant mental health thinking, e.g., relationship-based cognitive flexibility, could add joy to their medical decision-making.
• Analyze how infant mental health perspectives could improve patient outcomes over an array of diagnoses, using one or more case examples.
• Discuss the neuroscientific explanation for how the exercise of the compassion mindset and resulting compassion satisfaction are critical for buffering burnout and increasing clinician resilience.
• Describe the two states of appraisal that determine whether adrenaline enhances cognitive or physical performance.
• Identify the attentional network that counteracts the inward collapsing of attention into one's thoughts.
• Discuss the way in which one's approach to work changes depending on whether one uses primarily the right or left hemisphere.
• Cite research-based information for how clinicians can recover from burnout.
• Discuss how clinicians can re-engage a compassionate caring mindset and personal fulfillment in their careers.
• Describe the relationship between population control and Darwin's natural selection.
• Discuss the connection between the eugenics movement of the late 1800s and the "right to death."
• Describe the connection between the eugenics movement and the practice of euthanasia.
• Evaluate the criteria for human enhancement proposed by the new scientific eugenics.
• Discuss the connection between abortion and newborn euthanasia.
• Define the concept of Brain Death or Death by Neurologic Criteria as well as other pertinent terms including coma, vegetative state, etc.
• Discuss the origin of the concept of brain death and some of the proposed controversy behind its origins and subsequent development
• Discuss advances in modern medicine that make the Catholic position on the concept of brain death critically important.
• Discuss controversial cases related to brain death diagnoses.
• Evaluate Catholic theology, anthropology, moral teaching, and bioethics in relation to brain death and the arguments surrounding it
• Summarize common conscience rights challenges that clinicians face, from NCBC consultation.
• Differentiate between referral and transfer of care and apply to a clinical setting.
• Identify practical steps to address and mitigate conscience/religious liberty challenges.