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4/22/2025 - Medical Grand Rounds: Spreading the Wealth: Opportunities to Expand the Reach and Impact of Palliative Care

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

    • Describe three major contributions of specialty palliative care.
    • Recognize four limitations of specialty palliative care.
    • Identify four opportunities to expand the reach and impact of palliative care.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading:

  • Hutchinson RN, Chiu EJ, Belin SC, Klein-Fedyshin M, Impagliazzo CR, Costanza L, Passarelli J, Patel PP, Sahay S, Shen A, Razskazovskiy V, Schenker Y. How is telehealth used to increase access to specialty palliative care? A systematic review. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2025 Jan 2. [Online ahead of print]. PMID: 39755286.
  • Schenker Y, Althouse A, Rosenzweig RM, White DB, Chue E, Smith KJ, Resick JM, Belin S, Park SY, Smith TH, Bakitas M, Arnold RM. Effect of an oncology nurse-led primary palliative care intervention on patients with advanced cancer: the CONNECT cluster randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2021 Nov 1;181(11):1451-1460. PMID: 34515737. PMCID: PMC8438619.
  • Schenker Y. Talking about dying. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2024 Jan 1;184(1):11-12. PMID: 37930709.


    Joint Accreditation Statement

    In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


    Physician (CME)
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


    Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate wtih the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Yael Schenker, MD, MAS — Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Schenker is a consultant with EMMI Solutions.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.