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Implications of Marijuana Use to Hospital Care
2018-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Natividad Medical Center, 1441 Constitution Blvd, Salinas, CA, 93906, United States
Peter Barelka, MDAnesthesiologist, Veterans Administration HospitalClinical Assistant Professor of AnesthesiologyStanford University School of Medicine
presented by Peter Barelka, MD
The legalization of cannabis is advancing across the United States. Since the science of cannabis is generally not part of today’s medical training, here, healthcare professionals may have an opportunity to close an ‘education gap’ on the science behind cannabis and its implications to clinical hospital care.
Desired Outcomes:

Discuss the historical use of cannabis and the current use in pop culture and political movements.
Review the available OTC varieties and Rx.
Outline the biochemistry of Endocannabinoids and their impact on hospital care.
Analyze the evidence of benefits and of detriments.
Incorporate new knowledge into practice, including discussions with patients.

CME Activity Flyer (PDF)

Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation (ImPACTS)
2018-02-08 08:00 - 15:00 UTC
Shruti Kant, M.D.Assistant Clinical ProfessorAssociate Fellowship Program DirectorPediatric Emergency Medicine
Speaker for this CME Activity: Shruti Kant, M.D.
By Invitation Only
2 Sessions (8am-11am or 12 noon-3pm)
ImPACTS is a multi-centered, simulation-based education and QI program with an over-arching goal to enhance
preparedness of all hospitals, and provide high-quality
pediatric emergency training to all health care practitioners caring for ill and injured children.
Desired Outcomes:

To assess Pediatric Readiness of the Emergency Department (ED).
To improve provider knowledge and comfort in the care of critically ill pediatric patients.
To develop an action plan for improvement in ED pediatric readiness.

CME Activity Flyer (PDF)

Strategies Designed to Improve Physician Engagement
2018-03-13 12:00 UTC
Alan H. Rosenstein, MD, MBAPracticing Internist and Consultant in Physician Behavioral Management, San Francisco
Speaker for this CME Activity
Alan H. Rosenstein, MD, MBA
Today’s complex high stress health care environment has put increasing pressures on physicians as they try to negotiate the changes in medical practice. Many physicians are frustrated and dissatisfied with the way things are going with the associated stress and burnout negatively affecting their attitudes and behaviors toward medical care. More than ever we need our physicians to be engaged in active effective health care management. In order to engage physicians we need to listen their concerns, understand their needs, and provide them with the appropriate resource support to help improve their well- being and better adjust to the pressures of today’s health care environment. By enhancing physician satisfaction and engagement we can help them re-gain the joys of medical practice and improve health care relationships that enhance high quality best practice care.
Desired Outcomes:

Gain a better understanding of the incidence, causes, and impact of forces contributing to frustration, dissatisfaction, stress, and burnout in health care practitioners.
Discuss the negative impact of stress and burnout on attitudes and behaviors that can adversely affect well-being, care relationships, satisfaction, patient safety, and quality of care.
Learn how to develop a proactive organizational approach to address physician concerns and implement programs designed to enhance professional behaviors, staff satisfaction, physician engagement, and overall physician well-being.

CME Activity Flyer (PDF)

Assessing Medical Decision-Making Capacity in Patients with Behavioral Illness: How do you know?
2018-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Marc Tunzi, MD, MA, Associate Program Director, Family Medicine Residency, Chair, Bioethics Committee, Natividad Medical Center/ Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Speaker for this CME Activity: Marc Tunzi, MD, MA
Physicians are often faced with the difficulty of assessing medical decision-making capacity in patients with psychiatric illness who are refusing care. Health professionals often assess capacity differently in practice. Provided their patients have some understanding of their illness and have some plans for meeting basic needs, psychiatrists are often inclined to give patients the freedom to refuse care even if they do not exhibit a full understanding of the medical facts of their case and why they are refusing it. Adult medicine physicians, in contrast, are inclined to require patients to state a more complete understanding of the benefits and burdens of evaluation and treatment before allowing them to refuse care when their refusals might result in adverse medical outcomes. This activity will explore the tension between these approaches and highlight the role of hospital ethics consultation in addressing this conflict.
Desired Outcomes:

Articulate the differences between capacity and competence.
Identify the four sub-abilities of medical decision-making capacity.
Select the best practices when assessing capacity: e.g., consistency with past behaviors vs. the ability “to reason with medical information.”
Employ strategies to engage the patient’s family and friends, personal primary care physician, behavioral health staff, psychiatric consultation, and ethics consultation in the assessment process.

CME Activity Flyer (PDF)

Measuring & Improving Well-Being of Physicians
2018-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Christina Maslach, PhD., Professor of the Graduate School Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley Medical School
Speaker for this CME Activity: Christina Maslach, PhD
Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B. from Harvard, and her Ph.D. from Stanford. She is widely recognized as one of the pioneering researchers on job burnout, who has written numerous articles and books, including The Truth About Burnout, and has developed the leading research measure (the Maslach Burnout Inventory). Several of her articles have received awards for their significance and high impact, including her longitudinal research on early burnout predictors, which was honored in 2012 as one of the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. Recently, she received the 2017 Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award, as well as a lifetime career achievement award for her work on burnout. Christina received national recognition as Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She has been president of the Western Psychological Association, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, and has received the Berkeley Citation and the Distinguished Teaching Award from U.C. Berkeley.
Overview:
This lecture will provide a summary of what the burnout experience entails, and its causes and consequences. Also, the challenges in responding to burnout, and identify both personal and organizational strategies will be presented.
Desired Outcomes:

Identify and define the three components of burnout and how burnout is assessed in research.

Identify the six areas of job-person mismatches… which predict burnout.

CME Activity Flyer (PDF)
