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E-NEWS - November 2007End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center November, 2007 E-NEWS
* * * * * * * 1. What's New on www.eperc.mcw.edu 2. Click Here! 3. Weekly Reading 4. Free WEB MedEdPORTAL Training being offered 5. MedEdPORTAL Policy Change 6. Call for Proposals 7. Meetings/Conferences
* * * * * * * 1. WHAT'S NEW AT www.eperc.mcw.edu
FAST FACT AND CONCEPT #192: Palliative Care for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (11/09/2007)
FAST FACT AND CONCEPT #193: Decision Making for Adults with Developmental Disabilities Near the End of Life (11/26/2007)
* * * * * * * 2. CLICK HERE!
WORLD AIDS DAY - December 1
Jason Program Web site for Palliative Care Professionals http://www.jasonprogram.org/professionals.htm
http://www.lifecurriculum.info Case-based free curriculum consisting of 3 CD ROMs and two teachers guides on resident issues of fatigue impairment, challenges such as depression, substance abuse, boundary violations, burnout, impairment, disruptive behaviors, remediation, boundary violations.
CORRECTION from Oct E-News - "Survival Guide for Palliative Care RN's"
* * * * * * * 3. WEEKLY READING
+++Article Abstracts Available on PubMed+++
Volicer L. Goals of care in advanced dementia: quality of life, dignity and comfort. J Nutr Health Aging. 2007 Nov-Dec;11(6):481. PubMed ID: 17985063
Clough JD Using prospect theory to understand end-of-life decisions. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Oct 10;25(29):4700. PubMed ID: 17925572
Access Free Academic Medicine articles http://www.academicmedicine.org "A Complementary Approach to Promoting Professionalism: Identifying, Measuring, and Addressing Unprofessional Behaviors" and "Linking Professionalism to Humanism: What It Means, Why It Matters." Access to two manuscripts at Med-Ed-Online: (A) http://www.med-ed-online.org/volume12.php#Res00247 "Teaching Residents to Teach: The Impact of a Multi-Disciplinary Longitudinal Curriculum to Improve Teaching Skills"
Residents received instruction on teaching and leadership skills during a four-month longitudinal teaching course. Participants completed a validated pre-post self-assessment inventory for teaching and a teaching self-efficacy survey. Results: Participants' self-rated teaching skills significantly increased in all categories of the self-assessment inventory for teaching.
(B) http://www.med-ed-online.org/openreview.php#Res00252 "A Focus Group Study of Medial Students’ Views of an Integrated Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Curriculum: Students Teaching Teachers
Students agreed that goals of the CAM curriculum should center on awareness of patient use, evidence and information relevant to clinical practice. The majority did not intend to practice CAM modalities but valued skills to assess them. Patient-centeredness was recognized.
* * * * * * * 4. FREE INTERACTIVE WEB MedEdPORTAL TRAINING
MedEdPORTAL, launched by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), offers peer reviewed dissemination Of medical education teaching resources, while also providing a venue for medical educators and faculty to publish their successful medical education materials in a scholarly peer-reviewed forum. www.aamc.org/mededportal
Sign up for a 30-minute interactive web training Workshop/overview of the MedEdPORTAL system and examples of various types of materials available for free to educators and students around the globe.
Participants will learn about the submission and peer review processes as well as the criteria used to evaluate the scholarship of published resources.
1.December 5, 2007 at 1:00 PM North American (EST) 2.January 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM 3.February 6, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Additional workshop dates announced in February.
e-mail your contact information to mailto:mededportal@aamc.org along with the date you plan to attend.
* * * * * * * 5. MedEdPORTAL POLICY CHANGE
Starting on November 19, 2007 MedEdPORTAL staff began the process of disseminating published resources that are not currently available via the web. In the past users were required to contact authors to obtain MedEdPORTAL publications that were not web based.
Under the new policy users complete an online web form and MedEdPORTAL staff will send out the published resource via email or via the postal service within one business day (excluding US holidays and weekends).
See complete information on MedEdPORTAL and the policy Changes at www.aamc.org/mededportal
* * * * * * * 6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Beyond Competence: Fostering a Learning Centered Culture AAMC Central Group on Educational Affairs Spring Conference Hosted by The Ohio State University College of Medicine April 10 - 12, 2008 Columbus, Ohio
Call for proposals and online submission form at the CGEA website http://cgea.net/call08.htm
Deadline: December 3, 2007
* * * * * * * 7. MEETINGS / CONFERENCES / TRAINING
++Earn 48 CME Credits for completing the Unipac Self study series - Hospice/Palliative Care Training for Physicians By Porter Storey, M.D., and Carol F. Knight, Ed. M.
Fall Special Offer which includes all eight UNIPACs in print and on one convenient CD-ROM for one special price. Offer expires December 31, 2007. From Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers
++CAPC Audio Conference Running the Successful Family Meeting Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:30-2:30 PM Eastern
++Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association January 30-February 2, 2008 Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, FL. 847/375-4712 or www.aahpm.org
++Harvard's Palliative Care Education & Practice NEW! Pediatric Track Medicine and Nursing Need Leaders in Palliative Care Education for physician- and nurse-educators, given in two one-week blocks (Spring and Fall). April 29-May 6, 2008 and November 11-18, 2008 Royal Sonesta Hotel, Boston, MA http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare/pcep.htm
* * * * * * * For more information regarding items mentioned in E-News, contact EPERC staff at mailto:eperc@mcw.edu
We encourage you to forward this e-newsletter to an interested colleague or friend. They can subscribe at http://mailman.mcw.edu/mailman/listinfo/epercupdate
Judi Rehm E-News Editor Medical College of Wisconsin, MEB Rm 3235 8701 Watertown Plank Rd Milwaukee, WI 53226 Tel: 414-456-4353 Fax: 414-456-6506
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