Empowering Adult-Based Clinicians Infrequently Caring for Children: Bridging the Gap

Adult-trained hospice and palliative care clinicians often lack the specialized knowledge, resources, and confidence needed to provide high-quality, developmentally appropriate care for pediatric patients. Many do not identify as pediatric providers and may feel unprepared to manage unique challenges, including unfamiliar medication dosing, increased psychosocial demands, prognostic uncertainty, and emotional distress when caring for children with serious illnesses. Additionally, limited access to pediatric palliative care specialists further exacerbates these challenges, leading to inconsistent care quality and potential gaps in symptom management and family support. Addressing this gap is essential to ensuring that age is never a barrier to receiving high-quality hospice and palliative care. 

This recorded moderated panel discussion will equip adult-based hospice and palliative care clinicians with education, resources, and practical strategies to improve their ability to care for pediatric patients in the absence of pediatric specialists’ availability. By addressing knowledge gaps, resource availability, and emotional preparedness, this activity will help ensure that age is never a barrier to receiving high-quality, compassionate hospice and palliative care. 

Pricing: 

  • AAHPM Members: $49* 
  • Nonmembers: $64 

*HMDCB members can receive the AAHPM member rate when using a discount code at check out. To receive discount code please contact Member Services at 847.375.6740 or email [email protected]. 

Please note:

  • This is a recorded event.
  • This activity is repurposed from the live webinar that took place in April 2025. If you have accessed and claimed your CE credit prior, you cannot claim credit again.

Target Audience

AAHPM and HMDCB Adult Hospice Providers (MD, DO, APP) 
AAHPM and HMDBC Adult Palliative Providers (MD, DO, APP) 
Pediatric and Adult Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) Members 

Learning Outcomes

  1. Address key challenges and gaps in adult-based clinicians infrequently providing hospice and palliative care to pediatric patients, including resource limitations, unfamiliar medication dosing, prognostic uncertainty, and the emotional impact on providers. 
  2. Apply practical strategies and available resources to enhance confidence and competency of adult-based clinicians infrequently caring for pediatric patients, supporting developmentally appropriate, high-quality palliative care in the absence of a dedicated pediatric specialist. 
Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ABIM MOC
  • 1.00 ABP MOC
  • 1.00 CME (physician only)
Activity Published: 
07/30/2025
Activity Expires: 
03/31/2028
Member cost:
$49.00
List Price:
$64.00
Rating: 
0

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
Michael Barnett, MD MS FAAP FACP FAAHPM - Moderator
Patricia Keefer, MD FAAHPM
Emma Jones, MD HMDC
Sarah E. Ehrman, MD 

Staff
Emily Geary, BA
Candi Zabiegala, RRT PMP 
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN

PARS activity Dates: June 30, 2025 – March 31, 2028 

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 1.0 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 March 31, 2028 at 11:59pm CT for claiming CME credit. 

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Recognition 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, Bridging the Gap: Empowering Adult-Based Clinicians Infrequently Caring for Children (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 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. 
  • Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 1.0 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. De-identified aggregated data from the evaluation may be used for research and/or publication and will conform to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis where indicated.  

Evaluation period closes March 31, 2028 at 11:59pm CT for claiming MOC credit. 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ABIM MOC
  • 1.00 ABP MOC
  • 1.00 CME (physician only)

Price

Member cost:
$49.00
List Price:
$64.00
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