Culture & End of Life Care: Conversations with Patients and Families

Culture & End of Life Care: Conversations with Patients and Families is organized by Virtual Lecture Hall (VLH).

Current CME Approval Period: November 1, 2022 - October 31, 2025
Original Release Date: November 1, 2010

Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:

• Compare methods of giving bad news to a patient.
• Consider ways to respond when a patient is overwhelmed and raises questions that are difficult to answer.
• Identify a series of steps that physicians can take to examine and address their own emotions in order to preserve the quality of patient care and protect the physician's well-being.
• Elicit information from family members to clarify the incapacitated patient's motivations when she completed a living will.
• Sort the facts surrounding an ethical question in an end-of-life situation.
• Develop and consider options for resolving ethical issues.
• Give advice to patients about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM )based on evidence.
• Negotiate treatment plans with patients who elect to use CAM along with conventional care.
• Monitor patients' usage of CAM.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ | 1.0 MOC