Medical Grand Rounds - What are the Similarities and Differences of Palliative Care and Hospice & What is Goals of Care

Friday, September 24, 2021 | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Microsoft Teams

Presenter: James E. Perle, MD, Palliative Care Medicine, Guthrie Medical Group, P.C., Sayre, PA

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

  1. Review and understand the similarities and differences of palliative care and hospice.
  2. Describe what goals of care are and the importance they have on being a good provider specifically regarding patient relationships and treatment.
  3. Explain how goals of care can be discussed and done by all providers.

Date:  Friday, September 24, 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 presenting faculty/planning committee for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.”