Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker's Name and Title: Elizabeth Chuang, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Family and Social Medicine, Palliative Care Services
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Clinical Ethics Research Faculty
Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

Purpose: Racial disparities in quality of end-of-life care have multilevel and multidomain root causes. The goal of this webinar is to consider strategies to intervene at the individual, interpersonal, community, and social levels of influence in our research and practice.

Objectives:  

1. Identify underlying causes of racial and ethnic disparities in quality of end-of-life care reported in the current medical literature
2. Discuss critical gaps and limitations in our understanding of end-of-life disparities
3. Identify strategies that researchers, clinicians, and healthcare systems can adopt to reduce disparities in quality of end-of-life care

Target Audience: Primary care providers, nurse practitioners, palliative care specialists, pain specialists, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses with a specialty in palliative care/hospice, social workers, allied health professionals, fellows, residents, and medical students

Criteria for Successful Completion:

1. Attendance at entire session
2. Submission of completed evaluation form
3. Successful completion of a posttest; 80% passing grade (mandatory to receive CE credit for social workers)

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: This on-demand webinar, A Look in the Mirror: Shifting Paradigms to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in End-of-Life Care, with a beginning date of June 29, 2023, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 1.0 prescribed credit by the American Academy of Family Physicians. AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1.0 credit(s)^™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: October 6, 2022

Expiration Date: June 28, 2024 (for physicians and non-physicians); July 1, 2024 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:

Elizabeth Chuang, MD, MPH, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No other Planning Committee Member has financial disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Lara Dhingra, PhD
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Helena Knotkova, PhD
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS
Wini Schein, BA

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/