Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker: Craig D. Blinderman, MD, MA, FAAHPM
Chief of the Supportive Care Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)
New York, NY

Purpose: Patients with serious illness require nuanced goals of care conversations as they approach critical points in their disease trajectory or are nearing the end of life (EoL). Communication skills training requires extensive practice, dedicated time and resources, including standardized patients. The goal of this webinar is to explore the potential role (and limitations) of using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist trainees in enhancing their serious illness communication skills.

Objectives:  

1. Define generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP).
2. Describe the evidence for using generative AI systems in palliative care and psychiatry.
3. Discuss the use of ChatGPT to provide language for trainees approaching serious illness conversations.
4. Discuss limitations with implementing this technology in palliative care training.

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS 2024-2025 Interprofessional Webinar Series-Enduring, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 09/26/2024 to 09/25/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Serious Illness Communication is approved for 1.0 enduring AAFP Elective credit.
Note: Physicians should contact their respective licensing boards and specialty certification boards about acceptance of AAFP Elective credits when attempting to satisfy CME credit requirements.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: November 21, 2024

Expiration Date: November 20, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:
Craig D. Blinderman, MD, MA, FAAHPM, has indicated financial relationships with UptoDate and Tuesday Health (Clinical Advisory Board Member). Any discussion of investigational uses of these products will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/