Patient Care & Procedural Skills

ACP Advance Curriculum Module 1: Establish the What and Why for Change

Based on a review of the literature and member surveys that we have done, physicians need practical instruction on how to meaningfully engage in ongoing quality improvement (QI) in a way that minimizes jargon and administrative burden and maximizes engagement…

Patient Priorities Care – Helping Your Patients Identify their Health Priorities

In 2014, clinicians, patients, caregivers, health system leaders, payers, and funders from across the country came together to identify the key problems facing older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Their charge was to propose feasible and effective strategies for improving…

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients: Providers’ Obligations

Claims by deaf and hard of hearing patients against their healthcare providers are increasingly common. These claims tend to allege that providers fail to provide in-person interpreters or that they delay treatment or refuse to accept deaf or hard of…

SCOPE of Pain: Safer and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education

This activity is a series of online and live meeting CME/CNE programs designed to help healthcare providers, of all specialties, safely and effectively manage patients with acute or chronic pain and when appropriate, with opioid analgesics.

Acute Chest Pain: Evaluating Patients and Stratifying Risks

Chest pain is the second most common presenting complaint in the ED accounting for 6 million visits in the US annually and about 2 million of them are discharged to home from the Emergency Department. Of those patients discharged to…

Escalation of Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Surgical residents do not always call the attending physician about critical patient events, believing that it is not necessary or that the call will not be welcome. Failure to call for help is associated with failure to rescue, adverse events…

Improving Patient Safety: An Imperative in Medical Genetics and Genomics

This course is comprised of an in-depth dialog of key critical topics identified as impacting patient healthcare safety. In this activity, a participant will discover the burden of medical errors on the patient and healthcare system, contributing factors for medical…

DynaMed Point-of-Care Series

DynaMed activities will inform and support physicians’ and nurse practitioners’ clinical decisions by providing structured, self-directed online learning on topics relevant to clinical practice. The DynaMed activities will improve the decision-making and clinical skills of physicians and nurse practitioners within…

Controlled Substances Series: Drug Diversion Prevention

Prescription drug diversion is a serious problem and fuels the current US epidemic of drug misuse, abuse, and addiction. Healthcare practitioners need to be able to identify and prevent drug diversion in their practices, by patients or staff members. This…