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Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program
October 10, 2024 to June 20, 2025
Elevate your skill in caring for patients with serious illnesses!
The Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program provides virtual and interactive training in supportive care for advanced practice nurses, physicians, physician assistants, social workers, chaplains, and psychologists. Mixed methods learning includes interdisciplinary conferences; seminars for chaplains, social workers, psychologists, and nurses; webinars; communication skills workshops with standardized patients; one-on-one physician mentoring; and Micro-Skills on the Move, pearls from experts on serious illness, The instruction is evidence and case-based, addressing pain and symptom management and communication skills through a trauma-informed lens with an emphasis on interdisciplinary team-based care. Participants will strengthen skills to assess and manage complex cases across diverse practice settings, from inpatient care, clinic-based, home-based, and nursing home care. All sessions are delivered virtually with recordings available for on-demand learning.
Click the links below to learn more about each section of the program!
Fall 2024: Advanced Training in Supportive Care for Serious Illness
Winter 2025: Specialty-Level Palliative Care Webinar Series
Spring 2025: Professional Development in Communication and Supportive Care
Click the links below to learn more about each section of the program!
Fall 2024: Advanced Training in Supportive Care for Serious Illness
Winter 2025: Specialty-Level Palliative Care Webinar Series
Spring 2025: Professional Development in Communication and Supportive Care
Target Audience
This activity is designed for physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and other healthcare professionals dedicated to delivering high-quality palliative care. Healthcare providers working with underserved populations and in under-resourced areas are encouraged to participate and will be offered scholarships.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Recognize methods to support families suffering from grief and bereavement;
- Identify the impact of cultural, social, and psychological health determinants on healthcare decision-making;
- Define the challenges and barriers to accessing palliative care;
- Describe productive team-based approaches to palliative care across the care continuum that support each discipline’s roles and contributions;
- Discuss evidence-based approaches to managing gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms in serious illness;
- Develop an evidence-based approach to effectively manage pain in patients with serious illness, employing a comprehensive range of strategies including opioids, non-opioids, adjuvant analgesics, non-pharmacologic interventions, and alternative pharmacologic measures while prioritizing patient safety;
- Determine the appropriateness of referring patients with serious illnesses to a mental health specialist;
- Assess patient values and preferences for palliative care with a health equity lens;
- Evaluate patients with serious illness for psychosocial distress, opioid risk, depression, and suicide risk;
- Employ communication skills to effectively and empathetically deliver difficult news, and facilitate discussions about prognosis, goals of care, advance care planning, palliative care, and hospice care, while demonstrating cultural competence.
Available credit:
- 52.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 7.25 APRN Pharmacotherapy Hours
- 60.50 Nursing Contact Hours
- 60.50 Participation
Event starts:
10/10/2024 - 1:00pm
Event ends:
06/20/2025 - 9:00am
Activity opens:
06/20/2025
Activity expires:
09/20/2025
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This training program consists of a variety of learning formats, ranging from webinars to live conferences.
Find the most up to date information at The Coleman Palliative Medicine website.
Find the most up to date information at The Coleman Palliative Medicine website.
Multiple Locations and Virtual Webinars
Chicago, IL
United States
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WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Discover more about the Coleman Medicine Palliative Medicine Training Program at their website! For additional question about the program,
contact Aliza Baron via e-mail here.
contact Aliza Baron via e-mail here.
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact Aliza Baron via email at abaron@bsd.uchicago.edu.
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
COURSE DIRECTORS
![Stacie Levine, MD Stacie Levine, MD](https://cme.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/Levine.jpg)
Co-Director, Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
University of Chicago
![Sean O'Mahony, MD, BCh, BAO Sean O'Mahony, MD, BCh, BAO](https://cme.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/O%27Mahony.jpg)
Co-Director, Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program
Professor of Medicine
Division Chief, Department of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Palliative Care
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this Other activity (live/enduring) for a maximum of 52 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Participants who successfully complete the entire activity and complete an evaluation form will earn 60.5 contact hours.
Pharmacotherapy Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Participants who successfully complete the entire activity and complete an evaluation form will earn 7.25 contact hours.
Social Worker Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for the Cultural Competence Course for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
35 social work continuing education units are provided for this activity.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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