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2023 Grand Rounds: Year in Reflection
This activity includes the recordings of the three Grand Rounds that were held in 2023.
This 3-part accredited continuing education offering reflects on AAHPM's 2023 Grand Rounds Series. Legacy leaders, Dr. Rodney Tucker, Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson and Dr. Janet Abrahm share their leadership and clinical care perspectives for early and mid career hospice and palliative care practitioners.
Target Audience
Hospice Medical Directors
HPM Physicians
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Pharmacists
PAs
Learning Outcomes
Desired Learning Outcomes include:
1. Utilizing an experiential approach, participants will self-report the ability to apply, analyze and evaluate
2. The impact of crisis on individual leadership skills and how the need to evolve is paramount to successfully lead teams during times of crisis.
3. The incorporation of the pharmacotherapy specialist's skill set into the care planning process to improve outcomes in caring for patients with a serious illness (and their families), and incorporating evidence-based practice in palliative pharmacotherapy and reflect on illustrative examples for future practice application.
4. Specific therapeutic options for treatment and management of nausea or vomiting depending on the etiology; address effective non-pharmacologic measures to prevent and treat patients with delirium, and discern the rationale for a proposed strategy for treatment of patients with malignant bowel obstruction.
Disclosures
AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.
All editors, faculty and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
*An ineligible company is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
Faculty
Janet Abrahm, MD FACP FAAHPM
Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD MA MDE BCPS FAAHPM
Rodney Tucker, MD MMM FAAHPM
Staff
Leah Farfan, BA
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Liz Watson, BA
Angie Tryfonopoulos, BS
Theresa Nissen, BA
Laura Witt, MS-HSM
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW
Accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion includes attesting to meaningful activity participation and completion/submission of activity evaluation within the time frame designated.
Evaluation period closes December 31, 2026, at 11:59PM CT, for claiming CME credit.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
ABMS MOC Approval Statement
Through the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) ongoing commitment to increase access to practice relevant Continuing Certification Activities through the ABMS Continuing Certification Directory, 2023 Grand Rounds: Year in Reflection (apply toward general CME requirement) for the following ABMS Member Boards:
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
• This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 3.0 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM or ABP MOC credit. By submitting your evaluation, you grant AAHPM permission to submit completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting respective BOARD MOC program credit or points as applicable.
Evaluation period closes December 31, 2026, at 11:59PM CT for claiming MOC points.
Available Credit
- 3.00 ABA MOC
- 3.00 ABIM MOC
- 3.00 ABP MOC
- 3.00 ABS MOC
- 3.00 CME (physician only)
- 3.00 Participation