Navigating Difficult Discussions with Patients and Families (Part 1) – Best Practice Tools is organized by Baptist Health South Florida.
Course opens: 05/01/2021
Course expires: 04/30/2024
Course Description:
Physicians in every clinical specialty engage in serious and difficult discussions with patients and their family members. This course demonstrates communication models that employ an evidence-based framework for communicating serious news. Physicians who utilize effective communication tools when having serious conversations with patients and their family members about their treatment options and possible clinical outcomes can improve clinician self-assessments and patient satisfaction scores.
Learning Objective:
• Effectively navigate high stakes, difficult or emotional discussions with patients and/or their families by implementing communication models that utilize an evidence-based framework for communicating serious news.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded a Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.25 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.
Your participation information will be shared with the ACCME, which will in turn report your points to ABIM. Successful completion of a course examination is required to earn ABIM MOC points.
Available Credit
1.25 ABIM MOC II
1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
1.25 General certificate of attendance
1.25 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
1.00 Nurse Practitioners
1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
1.00 Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
1.00 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
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