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ForwardAttaining Health Equity: Focusing Our Lens on What’s Important
According to the CDC, “Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” Health inequities are reflected in differences in length of life; quality of life; rates of disease, disability, and death; severity of disease; and access to treatment.” health equity. In this online course, guest faculty, Mishah Azhar, M.D., and Danielle Little, M.D., discuss Attaining Health Equity: Focusing Our Lens on What’s Important.
Target Audience
Internal Medicine Physicians, Family Medicine Physicians, Obstetricians, Hospitalists, Fellows, Physician Assistants, Residents, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and all other interested healthcare providers.
Learning Objectives
- Define health equity and various terms associated with this, such as structural inequity, racism and social determinants of health.
- Identify health disparities and health equity and assess factors that play a role in this.
- Examine the rationale behind the importance of addressing health disparities and health equity, including factors that contribute to these disparities.
- Review ways in which physicians can play a role in addressing health disparity and health equity to optimize medical care for these patient populations.
Mishah Azhar, M.D.
PGY-4 Internal Medicine Chief Resident
Visiting Assistant Professor of Integrated Medical Science
Florida Atlantic University
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Boca Raton, Florida
Danielle Little, M.D.
Second-year Internal Medicine Resident
Florida Atlantic University
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Boca Raton, Florida
Mishah Azhar, M.D., and Danielle Little, M.D., faculty for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and have indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
John Rubin, M.D., conference director for this educational activity, indicated that he is a shareholder in AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb.
Kenneth Rosenthal, M.D., conference director for this educational activity, indicated that he is on the speakers’ bureau for AbbVie, Inc.
All the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*
*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Your participation information will be shared with specialty boards through the ACCME's PARS reporting system. Successful completion of a course examination is required. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.
Through an agreement between the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ABIM MOC II
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 General certificate of attendance
- 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
- 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
- 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
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