Strengthening Hospice and Palliative Care in the Emergency Department: From Barriers to Opportunities Micro Learning Series

Patients and families often come to the emergency department (ED) during moments of crisis, and the right approach can shape their entire care journey. This four-part micro-learning series is designed for emergency medicine clinicians and hospice and palliative care specialists who want to strengthen their skills in delivering high-quality, patient- and family-centered care in the ED.
Through short, case-based modules (15–20 minutes each), you’ll explore:

  • How to bring palliative care into the ED to meet urgent patient and family needs.
  • The business and systems case for ED-based palliative care and how to advocate for resources.
  • Practical, real-world strategies for integrating interdisciplinary care and facilitating hospice transitions directly from the ED.
  • The latest evidence and future directions shaping the growing field of emergency palliative care.

Each flight features diverse interprofessional faculty and real clinical cases, ensuring you gain insights you can apply immediately in practice.

Strengthen your skills at the intersection of emergency and palliative care. This four-part micro-learning series offers short, case-based sessions to help ED clinicians and hospice and palliative care specialists deliver compassionate, effective care when it matters most.

Target Audience

  • Emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and advanced practice providers
  • Palliative care specialists (physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, case managers)
  • Health system leaders and administrators seeking to expand ED palliative care services

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply approaches to primary and subspecialty hospice and palliative care delivery in the acute care setting when caring for patients and families in the ED.
  2. Integrate strategies to operationalize subspecialty hospice and palliative care in the ED, including workflow models, consult triggers, and embedded team structures.
  3. Collaborate effectively within an interdisciplinary team to identify, prioritize, and address acute hospice and palliative care needs for patients and families presenting to the ED.
  4. Evaluate and incorporate evidence on the impact of hospice and palliative care delivery in the ED to guide decisions that improve outcomes for patients, families, providers, and health systems.
Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 ABIM MOC
  • 1.25 CME (physician only)
  • 1.25 Participation
Activity Published: 
09/25/2025
Activity Expires: 
08/30/2028
Member cost:
$61.25
List Price:
$80.00
Rating: 
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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
Jason Bowman, MD
Kenneth Hanson, MD FACEP FAEMS
Tammie Quest, MD
Kirsten Engel, MD
Rennin Bimman, MSW LICSW
Caroline Meehan, MD
Sue Howe, RN

Staff
Emily Geary, BA
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
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 1.25 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 August 31, 2028 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, Integrating Palliative Care into Emergency Medicine Microlearning Series (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 1.25 MOC Medical Knowledge points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) 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 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 August 31, 2028 for claiming MOC credit.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 ABIM MOC
  • 1.25 CME (physician only)
  • 1.25 Participation

Price

Member cost:
$61.25
List Price:
$80.00
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