Updates in Palliative Care 2024

Mayo Clinic's Updates in Palliative Care is a multidisciplinary CME course designed to build and enhance your palliative care knowledge. Experts from the Mayo Clinic Center for Palliative Care provide clinically relevant pearls for palliative care providers and clinicians from primary care, hematology/oncology, hospital medicine, critical care and related specialties. If you care for patients with serious illness and are looking to broaden your skills beyond the basics, this is the course for you.
Target Audience
Targeted clinician specialties (MD, NP, PA-C) including clinicians from general internal medicine, family medicine, hospital medicine, oncology, hospice and palliative care, critical care, geriatrics, nephrology and cardiology.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Develop treatment strategies for common symptoms in patients with serious illness.
Utilize the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to assess patients' goals and values.
Define adaptive coping and apply intervention strategies to improve patient and family coping.

Attendance at any Mayo Clinic course does not indicate or guarantee competence or proficiency in the skills, knowledge or performance of any care or procedure(s) which may be discussed or taught in this course.

Others Details

Speakers: Frank (Andy) A. Bock, D.O., Molly A. Feely, M.D., Jacob J. Strand, M.D.