CME Sponsor:

USF Health and CME Outfitters

Location:

Interactive CME/CE Webcast via internet or Telephone

Faculty:

Francois Bethoux, MD

Director, Mellen Center Rehabilitation Services

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, OH

Jack S. Burks, MD

President, Burks & Associates, Inc.

Reno, NV

Chief Medical Officer, Multiple Sclerosis

Association of America (MSAA)

Cherry Hill, NJ

Credit Information:

CME Credit (Physicians):
USF Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

USF Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Note to Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts Category I credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA Category I CME credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.

CNE Credit (Nurses):
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 15510, for 1.5 contact hours.

CEP Credit (Psychologists):
CME Outfitters is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CME Outfitters maintains responsibility for this program and its content. (1.5 CE credits)

NASW Credit (Social Workers):
This program was approved by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886407722) for 1.5 continuing education contact hours.

CCMC Credit (Certified Case Managers):
This program has been approved for 1.5 hours by the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC).

CPE Credit (Pharmacists):
CME Outfitters, LLC, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs)

Registration Fee:

Free

Statement of Need:

Multiple sclerosis is a disease where patients and their caregivers must face difficult, life-altering news regarding disease progression, increased functional disability, and diminished quality of life. Providing an explanation for the diagnosis of MS requires that physicians and the multidisciplinary team improve the "scientific and human quality of the information given to their patients" and that physicians are adept at articulate and empathetic counseling techniques.(1)

Treatment for MS remains within the confines of making life for patients with MS as livable as possible for as long as possible. Health care providers must be able to recommend and coordinate a variety of rehabilitative techniques as part of their management plans, in addition to pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments designed to prevent additional nerve damage, slow progressive decline, and treat MS symptoms.

In this neuroscienceCME Webcast, expert faculty will discuss empathetic counseling protocols for communicating with patients, several therapeutic modalities for rehabilitation, quality of life assessments, and the importance of coordinating a multidisciplinary team across the continuum of care.

Activity Goal:

To educate health care providers on strategies for improved physician-patient communication, multimodal rehabilitation therapies to improve QoL, and tools for the routine assessment of quality of life in their patients with multiple sclerosis.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:

• Implement strategies for improved provider-patient communication that will foster a supportive patient environment for multiple sclerosis care.
• Select and employ multimodal tactics for rehabilitative therapy in multiple sclerosis as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Integrate into practice appropriate assessment tools for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as a measure of health and disease progression in patients with multiple sclerosis.

The following learning objectives pertain only to those requesting CNE credit:

• Recognize strategies for improved provider-patient communication that will foster a supportive patient environment for multiple sclerosis care.
• Identify multimodal tactics for rehabilitative therapy in multiple sclerosis that can be integrated as part of an interdisciplinary MS team.
• Name assessment tools for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that can be used as a measure of health and disease progression in patients with multiple sclerosis.
  

Target Audience:

Physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, certified case managers, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care professionals with an interest in multiple sclerosis.