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ForwardNavigating Difficult Discussions with Patients and Families (Part 2) – Informed Consent/Shared Decision Making Utilizing Best Case/Worst Case Model
Physicians in every clinical specialty engage in serious and difficult discussions with patients and their family members. This course demonstrates communication models that employ an evidence-based framework for communicating serious news. Physicians who utilize effective communication tools when having serious conversations with patients and their family members about their treatment options and possible clinical outcomes can improve clinician self-assessments and patient satisfaction scores.
Target Audience
Physicians who have contact with patients and family members, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Respiratory Therapists (Personal Growth), Social Workers and other interested healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the differences between shared decision making and informed consent.
- Utilize the “Best Case/Worst Case” model to facilitate shared decision making with patients and families prior to informed consent.
Toby C. Campbell, M.D., MSCI
Associate Professor, Medical Oncology and Palliative Medicine
Chief of Palliative Care
Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program Director
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Toby C. Campbell, M.D., MSCI, faculty of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Thinh H. Tran, M.D., and Zulma Ortiz-Rivera, M.D., conference directors for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.
Course coordinator, content reviewers, 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 1.25 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 1.25 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 the ACCME, which will in turn report your points to ABIM. Successful completion of a course examination is required to earn ABIM MOC points.
NOTE: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points will be automatically reported to the ABIM. 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
- 1.25 ABIM MOC II
- 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.25 General certificate of attendance
- 1.25 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
- 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
- 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
- 1.00 Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
- 1.00 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
NOTE: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points will be automatically reported to the ABIM. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.
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