Test Taking Like A Pro

This engaging interactive activity provides evidenced-based technical tips for navigating the certification exam and works to improve test taking skills.
Category
- Board Prep
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
Assessment and Management of Disruptive Behaviors in Persons with Dementia

The progressions of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias commonly result in the emergence of behavioral disturbances that benefit from a thorough assessment.
Category
- Non-Pain Symptom Management
- Disease Trajectories and Prognosis
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
It's Time for Justice: Racial and Ethnic Equity in Hospice and Palliative Care

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
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
'I Can't Eat, Speak, or Kiss My Wife. It's Half a Life, but at Least I'm Still Alive.' Navigating the Sequelae of Head and Neck Cancer

Depending on age, stage and HPV status, patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer have a high chance of cure, something that can be elusive in other advanced cancers.
Category
- Non-Pain Symptom Management
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
Speaking the Same Language: Bridging Cultural and Linguistic Barriers in Palliative Care

Hospice and palliative care providers recognize the value of effective communication to facilitate exploration of patients' and families' values and goals; however, many providers struggle to perform these key tasks when patients cannot communicate in English or have cultural norms which differ significantly from their own. Concepts such as autonomy and patient self-determination, 'truth telling'/disclosure of difficult news, shared decision making, as well as the acceptability of various treatments and communication techniques may present invisible barriers for palliative care providers working across cultures.
Category
- DEI: Addressing Disparities/Advancing Equity
- Communication/Teamwork
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- ABP MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
Not Just for Addiction: The Palliative Clinician's Guide to Using Buprenorphine for Pain

Buprenorphine is widely used as a treatment for patients with opioid use disorders, but has also been shown to be an effective treatment for cancer and neuropathic pain, with unique pharmacologic properties that give it several advantages over traditional opioids. Buprenorphine is associated with
Category
- Hot Topics
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
HPM FAST - 3rd Edition - Prognostication Module

Assess your knowledge in Prognostication with HPM FAST™ (Hospice and Palliative Medicine Focused Assessment and Study Tool). This online practice module contains 22 questions and includes explanations and up-to-date references to provide guidance for further study.
Category
- Disease Trajectories and Prognosis
- Board Prep
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- ABP MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
HPM FAST Pediatrics 3rd Edition

Assess your knowledge in Pediatrics with HPM FAST (Hospice and Palliative Medicine Focused Assessment and Study Tool). This online practice module contains 25 questions and includes explanations and up-to-date references to provide guidance for further study.
Category
- Pediatrics
- Board Prep
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- ABP MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
HPM FAST Psychiatry and Cognition 3rd Edition

Assess your knowledge in Psychiatry and Cognition with HPM FAST (Hospice and Palliative Medicine Focused Assessment and Study Tool). This online practice module contains 20 questions and includes explanations and up-to-date references to provide guidance for further study.
Category
- Non-Pain Symptom Management
- Board Prep
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- ABP MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation
HPM FAST Hospice Regulatory 2nd Edition (Reviewed 2022)

The HPM FAST Hospice Regulatory was released on November 4, 2019 and due to expire on November 4, 2022. This activity was recently reviewed and edited to ensure the content is accurate.
Category
- Regulatory/Public Policy
- Hospice
- Board Prep
Format
- Interactive Enduring Activity
Credits
- ABIM MOC
- ABP MOC
- CME (physician only)
- Participation