MGH Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds 2024-2025 – Subscription

Massachusetts General Hospital
Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds 2024-2025

September 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025
(Please note: This subscription does not include in-person attendance)

The 2024-2025 MGH Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds are available to the public to attend virtually LIVE via paid subscription.

The MGH Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds series provides a well-vetted, predictable, and consistent platform for a multidisciplinary/interprofessional group of busy clinicians to acquire the knowledge needed to fulfill the needs mentioned in point #1. The series consists of a weekly hour lecture by experts in the field who can present content around a specific topic pertinent to the clinical practice, education, and advancement of research in Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine.

The subscription will provide access to BOTH the live webinar AND the recording; however, if claiming credit, you may only claim credit for attending one or the other per date.

Target audience

This activity is intended for Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Chaplains, psychologists and sometimes physical therapists, clinical nutritionists, speech and language pathologists with specialties of Internal Medicine and all its subspecialities including palliative care and geriatric medicine, Psychiatry, Primary Care, Surgery, Neurology.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Demonstrate how interprofessional learning can lead to better team integration, sustainability and collaboration in Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine
2. Describe updates in geriatric science such as housing and social safety in older adults, transitional care models, dementia and caregiving and advanced cardiac therapies in the elderly.
3. Describe palliative care models in different countries and what the US can learn from this contextualization
4. Describe the new challenges unearthed by utilization of new targeted cancer therapies (for example CAR T cells) and how palliative care can partner with oncologists in this space to provide more relevant palliative care for the affected patient population
5. Discuss a model of Cross-Cultural negotiation regarding  serious illness and end of life choices by patients and their caregivers in both Palliative Care and Geriatric  Medicin

Registration instructions

For questions regarding the registration process, please contact Mass General Brigham Office of Continuing Professional Development at mgbcpd@mgb.org.

Additional information

Massachusetts General Hospital Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine and Mass General Brigham

Faculty credentials

Khadidjatou Kane, MD – Course Director
Instructor in Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing
Mass General Brigham designates this activity for 1 ANCC contact hour. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Work
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Mass General Brigham is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Mass General Brigham maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.

Lifelong Learning Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program

American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM)

MOC COMPLETION CRITERIA

Participant completion for MOC points will be reported to the boards when credit is awarded for the session. 

MOC points can only be awarded if you attended the entire session. 

Lifelong Learning MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program

Upon successful completion of this activity, if you wish to receive MOC Part 2 points you will need to enter your ABIM ID number and birthday (month/day) in your profile. The Mass General Brigham Office of Continuing Professional Development will verify completion of the activity and report to the ABIM. . Diplomates are responsible for checking their ABIM Portfolio for confirmation of MOC Part 2 points.

 MOC RECOGNITION STATEMENT

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Program

Sessions will be held weekly on Wednesday from September 11, 2024 to June 25, 2025 from 8:00 to 9:00 AM.