2022 Grand Rounds: Year in Reflection
This activity includes the recordings of the three Grand Rounds that were held in 2022.
This accredited continuing educations reflects on AAHPM's inaugural Grand Rounds Series hosted in 2022. Legacy leaders, Dr. Martha Twaddle, Dr. Tammie Quest and Dr. Jean Kutner shared their Leadership perspectives for early and mid career hospice and palliative care providers with the aim to inspire practitioners to embrace whole person patient care in the final months, days and hours of life by promoting shared experiences as an opportunity for healing, forgiveness and reconciliations, inform how diversity, equity and inclusion contributes to one’s organizational commitment, resilience, safety and professional development and engage the palliative care community in considering leadership as a career pathway addressing the unique roles and perspectives that palliative care professionals bring to leadership, translating the application of palliative care skills into leadership success.
Target Audience
Hospice Medical Directors
HPM Physicians
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Pharmacists
PAs
Learning Outcomes
Desired Learning Outcomes
1. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will self-report the ability to apply, analyze and evaluate shared experiences in caring for people with serious illness nearing life’s end as an opportunity for healing, forgiveness and reconciliations for future practice application in embracing whole person care.
2. Utilizing a narrative leadership experiential approach, participants will self-report the ability to apply, analyze and evaluate the impact and influence of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on individual career journeys as an opportunity for leadership growth and development for future practice application while exploring key tension points and indicators that one might identify when joining or growing within an organization.
3. Utilizing an experiential approach, participants will self-report the ability to apply, analyze and evaluate the translation of palliative care skills into leadership practice as an opportunity for career growth and development addressing the unique roles and perspectives that palliative care professionals bring to leadership, translating the application of palliative care skills into leadership success.
Disclosures
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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
Jean Kutner, MD MSPH FAAHPM
Tammie Quest, MD FAAHPM
Martha L. Twaddle, MD FACP FAAHPM HMDC
Content Editors
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Staff
Stephanie Adams
Leah Farfan
Theresa Nissen
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Angie Tryfonopoulos
Accredited 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 3.0 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, 2025, at 11:59PM CT, for claiming CME credit.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
ABMS MOC Approval 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, The Impact of DEI on My Journey Through Palliative Care (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 3.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
• This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.
• 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.
• Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 3.0 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.
Evaluation period closes December 31, 2025, at 11:59PM CT for claiming MOC points.
Available Credit
- 3.00 ABA MOC
- 3.00 ABIM MOC
- 3.00 ABP MOC
- 3.00 ABS MOC
- 3.00 CME (physician only)
- 3.00 Participation