Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning From Pediatric to Adult Care

Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning From Pediatric to Adult Care is organized by American Seminar Institute (ASI).

Date of Original Release: May 15, 2019
Termination Date: May 14, 2022

Target Audience:
This activity is designed for Physicians in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, Pediatric Subspecialties, Medical Specialties and Subspecialties, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors who support young adults with chronic conditions and their families.

Description:
Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care provides state-of-the-art strategies to help you effectively and efficiently transition these patients into your practice. This in-depth CME course includes case-based lectures on topics like congenital heart disease, diabetes, spina bifida, cancer survivorship, cardiovascular risk reduction, solid organ transplant, substance use disorder, and more. It will help you to better:
• Develop and implement practical strategies to transfer and accept patients with chronic conditions
• Navigate healthcare systems and their impact on transition to adult care
• Adhere to best practices for communication and goal setting with patients and families
• Get updates for sexuality and fertility with chronic disease
• Enhance your approach to patient and family engagement in chronic condition management and help them achieve health equity?

Course Topics:
• Leaving Neverland
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Diabetes
• Hiv
• Expert Panel: Transition Readiness and Self-management in Chronic Disease
• Patient Presentation: Surviving College With Inflammatory Bowel Disease ? Patient and Provider Perspectives
• Sexuality and Reproductive Health
• Assessing Your Current Practice of Transition Care: Primary Care Practice
• Assessing Your Current Practice of Transition Care: Specialty Care Practice
• Adolescent Confidentiality
• Tools to Support Self-management
• Enhanced Communication Between Patients and Providers
• Negotiating the Patient-provider Relationship Around Transitions in Care
• Workshop: Writing a Transition Policy Statement
• Assessing Developmental Progression
• Spina Bifida
• Epilepsy
• Down Syndrome
• Autism
• Expert Panel: Supported Decision-making - From Healthcare Proxies to Guardianship
• Community Living for Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy
• Implementing an Integrated Care, Hybrid Transition Model for Youth and Adults With Complex Needs: Early Experience
• Incorporating Adults With Id/dd Into Your Practice Setting: Primary Care Practice
• Incorporating Adults With Id/dd Into Your Practice Setting: Specialty Care Practice
• Billing & Coding for Transition Care
• Educational Advocacy for Youth With Id/dd
• Healthcare Reform
• Quadruple Aim Approach to Transition Care
• Cancer Survivorship
• Arthritis
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Patient Presentation: Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Youth With Chronic Conditions
• Expert Panel: Chronic Pain and Palliative Care
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Substance Use Disorder
• Quality Improvement Strategies to Improve Transition Care: Primary Care Practice
• Quality Improvement Strategies to Improve Transition Care: Specialty Care Practice
• Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Young Adults
• Building a Transition Consultation Program
• Innovative Strategies for Chronic Disease Management

Course Objectives:
After viewing this program, participants will be better able to:
Provide state-of-the-art care of chronic childhood conditions in adolescent and adult patients:
• Single-system disease, including congenital heart disease and epilepsy
• Multisystem disease, including cystic fibrosis and epilepsy
• Intellectual/developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome and autism

Develop and implement practical strategies to successfully transfer and accept patients with chronic childhood conditions:
• Care coordination and integration
• Supported decision-making
• Practice redesign and team-based care
• Adolescent health and wellness

Better navigate healthcare systems and their impact on transition to adult care:
• Quality improvement
• Reimbursement strategies
• National health policy
• Advocacy

Enhance your approach to patient and family engagement in chronic condition management and help them to achieve health equity:
• Communication skills
• Assessing self-management skills and readiness for transition to adult healthcare settings
• Coping with chronic illness
• Supports for community living

ACGME Competencies:
This course is designed to meet one or more of the following Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Competencies:
• Patient Care and Procedural Skills
• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement