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Educational Activities
2023
- AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite - this one-day virtual leadership course will up your leadership game as you enjoy an engaging day with your peers and a stellar faculty in the comfort of your home or office.
- Fall Advanced Clinical Course - this full-day workshop aims to strengthen and expand the knowledge base of primary psychiatric skills for palliative practitioners from a variety of backgrounds, career stages, disciplines, and settings of care.
2024
- Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care: this annual meeting brings together more than 3,400 attendees for a large interdisciplinary gathering of the #hapc field.
- The State of the Science: network with fellow investigators and gain insights into new research and method in hospice and palliative medicine.
Grand Rounds
And What Else…? Nausea/Vomiting and Delirium Assessment and Management
Thursday, September 7, 2023 | 11am CT
Faculty: Janet L. Abrahm, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
This one-hour live session is designed to enable hospice and palliative care clinicians to understand the pathophysiology and techniques for assessment and management of patients reporting nausea, vomiting, or delirium, all of which are common distressing problems for patients with serious illnesses.
Special topics will include the management of patients with malignant bowel obstruction; understanding the rationale for the prophylaxis and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting; and review of the controversies surrounding the treatment of patients with hypoactive delirium. The talk will include non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic strategies for the patients and the common educational needs of their informal caregivers.
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 1.0 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 October 31, 2023 at 11:59pm CT 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, And What Else…? Nausea/Vomiting and Delirium Assessment and Management (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 1.0 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.
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 October 31, 2023 at 11:59pm CT for claiming MOC credit.
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AAHPM was awarded accreditation as a provider of CME for physicians by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through November 30, 2025.