Utah Certificate of Palliative Education (UCoPE) at the University of Utah
UCoPE is a four-day intensive course designed for health care providers who want to improve their generalist palliative care skills. This four-day course involves a combination of communication and symptom-management skills training in an intimate setting, with a faculty to student ratio between 2-3:1. With facilitators from pediatrics, internal medicine, oncology, psychiatry, and geriatrics, attendees will be exposed to best palliative care practices in a variety of clinical settings, including the ICU, outpatient clinic, the emergency department, hospital and hospice.
Purpose of the Certificate
There is a shortage of trained hospice and palliative medicine providers in Utah for all health care disciplines from nursing to medicine to pharmacy. UCoPE is designed to address this critical shortage by providing an intensive course aimed at improving generalist palliative care skills for both adult and pediatric patients with serious illness. This interprofessional training certificate is the first of its kind in the intermountain region. Our goal is to increase the access to palliative care trained health care providers throughout Utah.
Who Should Take These Courses
There is a shortage of trained hospice and palliative medicine providers in Utah for all health care disciplines from nursing to medicine to pharmacy. UCoPE is designed to address this critical shortage by providing an intensive course aimed at improving generalist palliative care skills for both adult and pediatric patients with serious illness. This interprofessional training certificate is the first of its kind in the intermo Hospitalists, primary care providers, emergency department health care providers, intensivists and hospice providers who have not had formal training in palliative care or want to build on their current palliative care skills.
To register click here, or for more information please contact Rachel Hardy at 801-662-3645 or UCoPE@hsc.utah.edu
Are these tension points in your practice?
- When and how should I initiate ACP discussions with my patients?
- How do I give bad news but maintain hope?
- How do I care for a family who wants "everything done"?
- How should I discuss prognosis with patients?
- How can I tell if patients are exaggerating or faking pain, "drug seeking", or attempting to treat emotional or other non-pain issues with opioids?
- How should I handle situations where patients/families want treatments involving feeding tubes that I feel are inappropriate?
- What do I do when I find myself frustrated with a situation/individuals?
- How should I handle a conflict between a patient's advance directive and the wishes of their family in an emergency setting?
- How could I educate a family in a decision crisis about the Hospice benefit in the situation of having recently been told of a terminal diagnosis?
- What should I say to patients when I think that undergoing CPR will most likely cause a bad outcome for them?
- How do I respond to family's hope for a miracle?
- How can I develop a therapeutic relationship with patients who have hostile or difficult personality styles?
Upcoming UCoPE Trainings
Spring: Due to revising and improving the UCoPE course, there will not be a spring session.
Fall: Dates TBD
Accreditation: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA CREDIT: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 28.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CME Passport: The CME credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME's CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported CME credit. Please contact UUCME (CME.Office@hsc.utah.edu) with any questions.
All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 credits TM; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. Nurses seeking contact hours must claim through the CME system. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.
MOC Part II: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to: 28.75 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and/or 28.75 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and/or contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM or ABP or ABA MOC credit.
Speaker and Planning Committee Disclosure Summary:
The University of Utah School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education Office (UUCME) meets ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence expectations regarding the identification and mitigation of relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies. Everyone in control of content, including all speakers and planners, must disclose financial relationships in any amount within the past 24 months and any relevant financial relationships must be mitigated prior to the activity start.
Disclosure: None of the speakers or planners or anyone in control of content for this accredited continuing educational activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not relate to any products or services of an ACCME-defined ineligible company; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose or mitigate.
NONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director, OEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax).
Upcoming UCOPE dates
Spring: Due to revising and improving the UCoPE course, there will not be a spring session.
Fall: Dates TBD
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QUESTIONS? CONTACT US:
Courtney Perkins
Program Coordinator
Email: UCoPE@hsc.utah.edu
Phone: 801-646-9189