Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care 2019 (Videos+PDFs)

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Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care provides state-of-the-art strategies to help you effectively and efficiently transition these patients into your practice. This in-depth CME course includes case-based lectures on topics like congenital heart disease, diabetes, spina bifida, cancer survivorship, cardiovascular risk reduction, solid organ transplant, substance use disorder, and more. It will help you to better:

• Develop and implement practical strategies to transfer and accept patients with chronic conditions
• Navigate healthcare systems and their impact on transition to adult care
• Adhere to best practices for communication and goal setting with patients and families
• Get updates for sexuality and fertility with chronic disease
• Enhance your approach to patient and family engagement in chronic condition management and help them achieve health equity

Expand Your Skills

Available online or via audio MP3 CDs, Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care provides a maximum of 26.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ and access to unbiased, evidence-based content and case-based reviews so you can expand your knowledge and incorporate the latest guidelines into your daily practice.

Accreditation

The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The Harvard Medical School designates this enduring material for a maximum of 26.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Date of Original Release: May 15, 2019

Termination Date: May 14, 2022 (Please note that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ will no longer be issued for the activity after this date)

Estimated Time to Complete: 26.75 hours

CME credit is awarded upon successful completion of a course evaluation and post-test.

ABIM Medical Knowledge MOC Points

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 26.750 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC points.

ABP Medical Knowledge MOC Points

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity including individual assessments by the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn 26.75 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Risk Management Credit

This activity meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for 1.25 credits of Risk Management Study.

Please check your individual state licensing board requirements before claiming these credits.

Disclosure Policy

Harvard Medical School (HMS) adheres to all ACCME Accreditation Criteria and Policies. It is HMS’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that HMS may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure information for all individuals in control of the content of the activity is located on the disclosure statement in the PDF and printed syllabus.

Learning Objectives

After viewing this program, participants will be better able to:

Provide state-of-the-art care of chronic childhood conditions in adolescent and adult patients:

• Single-system disease, including congenital heart disease and epilepsy
• Multisystem disease, including cystic fibrosis and epilepsy
• Intellectual/developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome and autism

Develop and implement practical strategies to successfully transfer and accept patients with chronic childhood conditions:

• Care coordination and integration
• Supported decision-making
• Practice redesign and team-based care
• Adolescent health and wellness

Better navigate healthcare systems and their impact on transition to adult care:

• Quality improvement
• Reimbursement strategies
• National health policy
• Advocacy

Enhance your approach to patient and family engagement in chronic condition management and help them to achieve health equity:

• Communication skills
• Assessing self-management skills and readiness for transition to adult healthcare settings
• Coping with chronic illness
• Supports for community living

ACGME Competencies:

This course is designed to meet one or more of the following Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Competencies:

• Patient Care and Procedural Skills
• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for Physicians in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, Pediatric Subspecialties, Medical Specialties and Subspecialties, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors who support young adults with chronic conditions and their families.

Topics/Speaker:

• Leaving Neverland – Niraj Sharma, MD MPH and Kitty O’Hare, MD

• Congenital Heart Disease – Keri M. Shafer, MD, FACC

• Diabetes – Katharine Garvey, MD, MPH

• HIV – Anne M. Neilan, MD, MPH

• Expert Panel: Transition Readiness and Self-Management in Chronic Disease – Moderator: Ahmet Uluer, DO MPH

• Patient Presentation: Surviving College with Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Patient and Provider Perspectives – Sarah N. Flier, MD, Janis H. Arnold, MSW, LICSW and Rebecca Sailer, BA

• Sexuality and Reproductive Health – Susan H. Gray, MD

• Assessing Your Current Practice of Transition Care: Primary Care Practice – Kitty O’Hare, MD and Colleen A. Monaghan, MD

• Assessing Your Current Practice of Transition Care: Specialty Care Practice – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH and Susan Shanske, LICSW

• Adolescent Confidentiality – Maurice W. Melchiono, RN, MS, FNP-BC, NE-BC

• Tools to Support Self-Management – Kristine D. McKenna, PhD and Lynne Helfand, MSW, MPH, LICSW

• Enhanced Communication between Patients and Providers – Donna Lynn Nimec, MD

• Negotiating the Patient/Provider Relationship around Transitions in Care – Susan Shanske, LICSW

• Workshop: Writing a Transition Policy Statement – Niraj Sharma, MD, MPH, Kitty O’Hare, MD, Elizabeth Petersen, MD, MPH and Susan Shanske, LICSW

• Assessing Developmental Progression – Susan Shanske, LICSW

• Spina Bifida – Carlos R. Estrada Jr., MD, MBA

• Epilepsy – Ann Marie R. Bergin, MB, ScM, MRCP (UK)

• Down Syndrome – Stephanie L. Santoro, MD

• Autism – Sarah J. Spence, MD, PhD

• Expert Panel: Supported Decision-Making — From Healthcare Proxies to Guardianship – Jennifer Turek Queally, PhD, Susan Shanske, LICSW, and Christopher Ryan, MSW, LCSW

• Community Living for Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy – Laurie J. Glader, MD

• Implementing an Integrated Care, Hybrid Transition Model for Youth and Adults with Complex Needs: Early Experience – Richard C. Antonelli, MD, MS

• Incorporating Adults with ID/DD into Your Practice Setting: Primary Care Practice – Kitty O’Hare, MD and Colleen A. Monaghan, MD

• Incorporating Adults with ID/DD into Your Practice Setting: Specialty Care Practice – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH and Susan Shanske, LISCW

• Billing & Coding for Transition Care – Colleen A. Monaghan, MD

• Educational Advocacy for Youth with ID/DD – Alison D. Schonwald, MD

• Healthcare Reform – Niraj Sharma, MD, MPH

• Quadruple Aim Approach to Transition Care – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH

• Cancer Survivorship – Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH

• Arthritis – Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD

• Sickle Cell Disease – Maureen M. Achebe, MD

• Cystic Fibrosis – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH

• Patient Presentation: Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Youth with Chronic Conditions – Colleen A. Monaghan, MD and Stacy B. Klickstein, MSW, LICSW

• Expert Panel: Chronic Pain and Palliative Care – Emma M. Jones, MD and Rachael B. Coakley, PhD

• Solid Organ Transplant – Maureen M. Jonas, MD

• Substance Use Disorder – Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, MS

• Quality Improvement Strategies to Improve Transition Care: Primary Care Practice – Kitty O’Hare, MD and Colleen A. Monaghan, MD

• Quality Improvement Strategies to Improve Transition Care: Specialty Care Practice – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH and Susan Shanske, LICSW

• Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Young Adults – Anne Marie Valente, MD

• Building a Transition Consultation Program – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH

• Innovative Strategies for Chronic Disease Management – Lori W. Tishler, MD, MPH