Hospice Super Forum
AAHPM and HMDCB are pleased to present The Hospice Super Forum. This half-day virtual educational event will address trending topics in hospice medicine, including hospice ethical challenges, hospice deprescribing, and complex symptom management in hospice patients.
Learners can expect to gain a basic framework of ethical decision making within the context of end-of-life care, learn critical thinking processes for assessing the appropriateness of individual medication in serious illness, and review and examine pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to managing top complex symptoms. Each session will include a Q&A time with presenters and an opportunity to connect with peers.
Join Drs. Mina Chang, Mary Lynn McPherson, and David Wensel as they guide learners through these important topics that all practitioners caring for hospice patients should be aware of.
Pricing
- AAHPM Members: $300*
- Nonmembers: $425
As part of your registration, pizza will be delivered right to your door! **This is not applicable to international registrants.
*HMDCB certificants receive the member rate with the discount code. Contact info@hmdcb.org for the code.
Please note: This forum is a live event only. It is anticipated that the recording of this forum will be available for purchase in Q1 2025 pending the recording quality supports optimal on-demand learning. Paid attendees will receive complimentary access to the purchase when available.
Target Audience
Early to midcareer hospice provider learner level. Hospice physicians and medical directors, fellows, APPs practicing in hospice care, palliative providers wanting to know more about hospice practices.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the "benefit-burden" ratio of medication use in serious illness by assessing three approaches to deprescribing medications in serious illness, and evaluate which medications should be deprescribed and how to taper the dose in a simulated case of a patient with a serious illness.
- Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will self-report the ability to analyze approaches to managing complex symptoms in the hospice setting, justify levels of hospice care that may support complex symptom management, and correlate the roles of the transdisciplinary team approach to complex symptom management.
- Utilizing case examples, learners will be able to apply primary ethical principles, construct an ethics consult, and critique the principle of double effect as applied to practice.
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
David Wensel, DO FAAHPM HMDC
Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD PhD FAAHPM
Mina Chang, MD HMDC FAAHPM
Staff
Leah Farfan, BA
Liz Watson, BA
Rebecca Wyant, BS
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Theresa Nissen, BA
Laura Witt, MS-HSM
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW
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 4.0 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, 2024 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, Hospice Super Forum (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 4.0 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 credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification 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 December 31, 2024 at 11:59pm CT for claiming MOC credit.
Available Credit
- 4.00 ABIM MOC
- 4.00 ABS MOC
- 4.00 CME (physician only)
- 4.00 Participation