Medical Grand Rounds - Caring for Whole Persons During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Friday, February 5, 2021 | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Microsoft Teams

Presenter: Ira R. Byock, MD, Founder and Chief Medicine Officer, Institute for Human Caring, Providence Health & Services, Active Emeritus Professor, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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

  • Identify the fundamental components of quality clinical care.
  • Articulate the importance of anchoring a change strategy within the priorities of a large healthcare organization. 
  • Identify key elements of a “non-incremental change strategy” that has produced measurable progress toward healthcare transformation in a large multi-state health system.
  • Articulate how goals-of-care conversations and, when indicated specialty palliative care are essential for quality of care for seriously ill patients.

Date:  Friday, February 5, 2021
Time:  12 p.m.
Location: Microsoft Teams - E-mail Trish.Stern@Guthrie.org to be included

This program is intended for: Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Fellows, Residents, Medical and Nursing Students, and other Ancillary Healthcare Professionals.

Accreditation Statement
“The Guthrie Clinic is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

Designation Statement
“The Guthrie Clinic designates this live activity for a maximum of (1.0) AMA PRA Category I Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.”

Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Statement
“Faculty and all others who have the ability to control  the content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by The Guthrie Clinic are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).” The presenter and all other persons planning the content of this program have indicated they DO NOT have any significant commercial interests that may bias the presentation.