Online CME in End-of-Life Care

The Behrman Center for Medical Education at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida is pleased to sponsor this continuing medical education activity, which is being provided by the American College of Physicians.

Treatment Decisions at End-of-Life

Original release date of this material is November, 2001.

This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Essentials. This course fulfills the Florida CME requirement for licensure and may be substituted for either the required class in domestic violence or HIV/AIDS, if these classes were both completed in the previous relicensure or recertification cycle.

Course Objectives:

The purpose of this course is to update physicians, in all practice settings, about end-of-life issues; the ethical and legal provisions of advance care planning, and withdrawing/withholding life-prolonging treatments in the State of Florida.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

1. Review essential communication skills for end-of-life discussions, bereavement/grief Counseling, advanced care planning, treatment withdrawal, and futile treatments;

2. Discuss the impact of spiritual and cross-cultural issues on end-of-life care;

3. Define current law regarding advance directives, life-prolonging treatments and physician assisted suicide and euthanasia; and

4. Demonstrate ethical principles that apply to end-of-life care using case-based learning.

Course Test

Accreditation

Mount Sinai Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Educationo (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

Mount Sinai designates this continuing medical education activity for 1.0 Category I credit hours of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.

Disclosure Statement

Mount Sinai Medical Center in accordance with the Standards for commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education of the Accreditation Council for continuing Medical Education (ACCME), will disclose the existence of any significant financial interest or other relationship a faculty member or the sponsor has with any commercial organization that may represent a conflict of interest. At the time of publication of the brochure, some speakers may not have returned their disclosure of interest forms. Disclosure is made in the faculty listing of the brochure, syllabi, and conference materials/information by an asterisk following the name of any speaker(s) who may have a potential duality of interest.

Faculty

P. V. Caralis, MD, JD, FACP
Professor of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine
Assoc. Chief of Medicine and
Chief, General Medicine, MVAMC

Marlene P. Klein, Esq.
Miami-Dade County Attorney's Office
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Fl.

Estimated Study Time: 1 hour.

Directions for Obtaining CME Credit Certificates

After completing the course, download the questionnaire and fax it to Norris Harris at the CME Department of Mt. Sinai Medical Center.305.674.2946. Your CME certificate will be mailed from Mount Sinai Medical Center, 4300 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33440. Ms. Harris can be reached at 305.674.2311.

The course is free to ACP-ASIM members / $50 for non-members.

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