It's Time for Justice: Racial and Ethnic Equity in Hospice and Palliative Care
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What would racial equity and justice look like in hospice and palliative care? The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the structural racism within US culture and the resulting healthcare inequities.
Category
- DEI: Addressing Disparities/Advancing Equity
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- 0.50 CME (physician only)
- 0.50 Participation
Lessons from a Therapist’s Chair: Optimizing Palliative Communication through Psychotherapy Best Practices and Skills
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The use of communication as a therapeutic tool is an essential piece of both palliative medicine and psychotherapy. The approach with which communication is conceptualized and taught, however, is markedly different between the two fields.
Category
- Communication/Teamwork
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- 0.50 ABIM MOC
- 0.50 CME (physician only)
- 0.50 Participation
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): A Viable, Lesser Known Palliative Option of Last Resort
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Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) has recently gotten attention as a viable 'last resort' palliative option for patients who want to escape their current medical situation through a self-initiated death, but might not qualify for a physician assisted death or might not want it even
Category
- Bioethics
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- 0.50 ABIM MOC
- 0.50 CME (physician only)
- 0.50 Participation