Academic Medicine

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…

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.

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…

Empathetics: Neuroscience of Emotions – Delivering Bad News

Improving empathic behavior increases patient satisfaction, reduces the likelihood of malpractice law suits, decreases burnout, and improves clinician job satisfaction. A rigorous randomized controlled trial of practicing physicians showed statistically significant improvement in patient satisfaction scores for those clinicians that…

Empathetics: Neuroscience of Emotions – Managing Difficult Medical Interactions

Improving empathic behavior increases patient satisfaction, reduces the likelihood of malpractice law suits, decreases burnout, and improves clinician job satisfaction. A rigorous randomized controlled trial of practicing physicians showed statistically significant improvement in patient satisfaction scores for those clinicians that…

Empathetics: Neuroscience of Emotions – Introduction to the Neuroscience of Empathy

Improving empathic behavior increases patient satisfaction, reduces the likelihood of malpractice law suits, decreases burnout, and improves clinician job satisfaction. A rigorous randomized controlled trial of practicing physicians showed statistically significant improvement in patient satisfaction scores for those clinicians that…