Activity ID
9364Expires
April 26, 2025Format Type
EnduringCME Credit
1Fee
$150CME Provider: Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO)
Description of CME Course
Engaging patients in their own care has significant benefits—it increases their adherence to healthcare recommendations, helps them deal more calmly with medical uncertainties, often improves their care outcomes, and it reduces your risk of sustaining malpractice claims. This education activity gives some time-sensitive strategies for engaging patients.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
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Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
1. Assess your communication style with patients, and list one technique you can apply to demonstrate more empathy and attentive listening in patient encounters.
2. Describe at least one method for increasing patients’ engagement in decision making and explain how you could integrate that method into appropriate patient encounters.
3. Practice asking questions that will give patients a chance to share their personal values and perspectives with you.
Keywords
Patient engagement, communication, shared decision-making, patient values
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning & Improvement, Professionalism
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Physician Executives, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
