Improving Patient Comprehension Through Explanatory Communication
This JAMA Insights illustrates how explanatory communication strategies can help improve patient comprehension, including adherence to treatment recommendations and self-management.
Interpersonal & Communication Skills
Research Readiness Training
The Research Readiness Training course prepares clinical staff to effectively integrate research into busy clinical healthcare settings. Clinicians will gain foundational knowledge in the principles and implementation of research and understand the key role played by each member of the…
Gender-Affirming Care – 2024 MMS Annual Meeting Ethics Forum
The 2024 Ethics Forum at Massachusetts Medical Society’s Annual Meeting (recorded on May 20, 2024) presented by the Committee on Ethics, Grievances, and Professional Standards, the Ethics Forum alerts physicians to the ethical implications of issues that arise in daily…
Crafting Compelling Voices: Writing and Publishing Impactful Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor
Are you deeply committed to a specific healthcare issue, aiming to shape public opinion, influence policy, or narrate a compelling personal journey? Leverage your expertise in healthcare as your written opinions, grounded in both professional and personal experiences, hold credibility…
Four Tips for Improving Video Telehealth Patient-Clinician Communication
This JAMA Insights explores the differences between in-person and telehealth encounters between patients and clinicians and offers clinicians guidance on how to improve communication with patients when meeting virtually.
MO Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
The content of this course will help healthcare providers understand the connection between domestic violence and pregnancy and the impact violence has on maternal health. Participants will be provided a philosophical basis for trauma-informed and survivor-centered care as well as…
Patient Safety Highlights 2024 Package
The Patient Safety Highlights 2024 package consists of 13 individual modules that contain recordings of the corresponding session presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2023. Upon successful completion of all the modules, the learner would earn 11.75 ABA-approved patient safety credits. The patient…
ECHO Autism: Intense Behavior
ECHO Autism: Intense Behavior aims to increase access to best-practice assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for individuals on the autism spectrum with intense behavior such as severe emotional dysregulation, self-injurious behaviors, and physical aggression towards others. A variety of research studies…
How Should Surgical Palliative Success Be Defined?
Palliative surgery is often defined as surgical intervention with intent to improve a patient’s quality of life by relieving suffering secondary to symptoms of advanced disease. In the context of shared decision making about palliative surgery intervention, tensions can arise…
Ethics Talk: How to Share Decision Making With People Experiencing Mental Illness
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast. The target audience for this activity includes, but isn’t limited to, internists, obstetricians, gynecologists, gastroenterologists, family physicians, surgeons, pediatricians, oncologists, psychiatrists,…
