Bringing NCP Domain 5 to Life Within Your Hospice and Palliative Care Practice Micro-Learning Flight

Palliative care clinicians are advocates for whole-person care, addressing symptoms and protecting what is most important to people living with serious illness, yet many palliative care clinicians lack clarity about how best to collaborate with spiritual caregivers to champion spiritual, religiou
Category
- Academic/Education Strategies
Format
- Video
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Elevating Patient and Caregiver Voices: Implementing New Patient-Reported Experience Measures

This activity is designed to facilitate implementation of PRO-PMs to improve quality outcomes in serious illness care.
Category
- Research/Quality Improvement
Format
- Video
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Fellowship Recruitment: Application Evaluation and Interviewing

Learn how to create an inclusive and equitable environment for applicants, with a focus on reviewing applications prior to interview and structuring interview day.
Category
- DEI: Addressing Disparities/Advancing Equity
Format
- Video
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HMD 2022 Update and Exam Prep

Study from your desktop, laptop or while on the go to prepare for the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board (HMDCB) examination or use as a resource to advance your knowledge in hospice and palliative medicine best practices. Achieve these goals with this non-accredited 7.5-hour recorded content from the HMD Update and Exam Prep Pre-Conference Workshop held at the 2022 Annual Assembly.
Category
- Board Prep
Format
- Video
- Self Study
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Fellowship Recruitment: Candidate Selection

The AAHPM Fellowship Training Committee, as part of its mission to promote and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, is pleased to present the second in a series of webinars on how to foster DEI in fellowship recruitment.
Category
- DEI: Addressing Disparities/Advancing Equity
Format
- Video
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Competency-Based Medical Education

Learn the background and application of competency-based medical education (CBME) tools in graduate medical education (GME) to enhance your fellows' education and evaluation.
Category
- Academic/Education Strategies
- Core Content
Format
- Video
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Improving Public Messaging about Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, and Hospice using Evidence-Based Principles

Messaging to the public regarding advance care planning, palliative care and hospice is inconsistent and confusing. Hospice and palliative care specialists are often asked to talk to the public about care for people with serious illness, but most have received little or no training in public messaging or media engagement. This activity reviews the need for improving public messaging about advance care planning, palliative care, and hospice along with the empirical evidence for public attitudes and awareness of these aspects of care for serious illness.
Category
- Academic/Education Strategies
- Research/Quality Improvement
- Hospice
- Communication/Teamwork
Format
- Subscription
- Video
- Self Study
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Intensive Review Course Recording (2022)

Study from your desktop, laptop or while on the go to prepare for the hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) subspecialty certification exam (ABMS/AOA) or to increase your knowledge in HPM and best clinical practices.
Category
- Research/Quality Improvement
- Pediatrics
- Medical/Clinical Knowledge
- Hospice
- Core Content
- Communication/Teamwork
- Board Prep
- Resilience and Well-Being
Format
- Video
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Truth Be Told or Still not Sold? The Case for Benzodiazepines in the Palliative Management of Delirium

The current palliative management of delirium involves (1) identification of reversible causes of delirium, (2) non-pharmacologic measures, and (3) pharmacologic interventions for palliation. Clinicians reserve pharmacologic interventions for cases of hyperactive delirium or refractory delirium. Specific pharmacologic agents treating delirium have typically involved using drugs from the neuroleptic class. Often families request sedation for their loved one, complicating neuroleptic choice. Early randomized controlled trials found that benzodiazepines cause worsening delirium. Other research showed that benzodiazepines and central nervous system depressants cause significant complications in the elderly leading to further avoidance. The avoidance of benzodiazepines continued as guidelines warned of their use in delirium except in the case of alcohol withdrawal. Recent randomized controlled trials suggest that benzodiazepines are effective when sedation is required as part of the delirium treatment strategy. There is also evidence for their benefit as breakthrough agents for delirium. As benzodiazepines are potent sedatives, clinicians need to carefully weigh the risks and benefits before prescribing benzodiazepines in patients with delirium and discuss the goals of care with family caregivers and patients (if possible). Identifying when to use, how to use, and what patients will benefit from benzodiazepines becomes essential.
Category
- Pain Management
- Communication/Teamwork
Format
- Video
- Self Study
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Advanced Pain Management Course Recording (2022)

Practices for prescribing and titrating opioid infusions vary widely, including within the field of hospice and palliative care.
Category
- Research/Quality Improvement
- Pain Management
- Medical/Clinical Knowledge
- Core Content
- Communication/Teamwork
- Resilience and Well-Being
Format
- Video
Credits