MSK Virtual Geriatric Oncology: Cognition and Communication

MSK Virtual Geriatric Oncology: Cognition and Communication course is organized by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). This Online CME Conference will be held as a fully web-based course from Sep 10 - 11, 2020. 

Accreditation:
AMA Credit Designation Statement:
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center assigns this online CME activity for a maximum of 15.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians can claim the credit commensurate based on the extent of their participation in the session.

Social Work Accreditation Statement:
This online course is recommended for a maximum of 14.50 Continuing Education Contact Hours of online web-based Training. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is acknowledged by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an established presenter of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0228.

Overview:
This program will provide a high-level conference encompassing chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment, distress/anxiety, and its effects on cognition, delirium, dementia, and depression. This Online CME course will mainly concentrate on communication-based affairs and barriers while interacting with the older cancer patient (including caregivers and family members), analyzation methods of decision-making capacity, as well as approaches to work with an interpreter for patients who suffer both from dementia and experience a language barrier.

The day 2 Geriatric Communication Skills Training is composed of a definite experiential learning methodology that will engage participants in following afresh taught skills in a simulated appropriate clinical environment.

Registration is complimentary for approved applicants (please click here for more details).
This educational activity is funded by the National Cancer Institute.

Here are the conference objectives of MSK Virtual Geriatric Oncology,