Telehealth: Essential Considerations and Practical Guides for Implementation and Success
OVERVIEW: Telehealth has become an integral part of the healthcare system as it provides patients, healthcare providers, and staff with a flexible option to meet healthcare needs. The use of telehealth proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic, with regulations and payment structures modified to allow payments to clinicians to provide new ways of care. This course covers telehealth best practices and use cases to transform care delivery by integrating workflows, administrative documentation, and achieving high patient satisfaction.
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Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 1.25 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.25 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.25 Completion
  • 0.13 Nursing Hour(s)
Cost $0.00
Addressing Food Insecurity in Patients with Chronic Diseases
OVERVIEW: A panel of experts discuss issues around food insecurity in patients with chronic diseases, including evidence-based strategies. There is a need among healthcare providers to establish competencies and integrate strategies into their practices for their patients to overcome barriers to healthy food access, proper food preparation, and nutritional balance. This module includes three panelist presentations followed by a panel discussion and then knowledge check questions.
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Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Completion
  • 0.15 Nursing Hour(s)
Cost $0.00
The Collaborative Care Model: How to Integrate Behavioral Health into Your Practice
OVERVIEW: This course presents providers with evidence-based information and tools to integrate behavioral health care skills into their practice using the Collaborative Care Model. In a time of widespread need for clinical assessment and early intervention services for depression and other behavioral health conditions, providers can learn about how their patient care practices can be adapted to address this need effectively. This module is a lecture style format with knowledge check questions at the end of the presentation. This module is approved for 1 hour of CME. 
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Completion
  • 0.10 Nursing Hour(s)
Cost $0.00
Vaccine Communication Strategies for Healthcare Providers
Overview: This module reviews the population health impact of vaccinations on the community. This includes the vaccine campaigns, health benefits, risk-factors, vaccine hesitancy and impact of misinformation so that health professionals can effectively communicate with patients about vaccinations. ​This module will be a lecture style format with integrated questions throughout. ​This module will be approximately 1 hour in length for viewing and completion of the evaluation​. This module is approved for 1 hour of CME.
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Completion
  • 0.10 Nursing Hour(s)
Cost $0.00
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Syndromic and System-Level Interventions
Overview: This course overviews the history of antibiotics and how antimicrobial overuse has led to a public health emergency in our communities. Presenters overview the concept of antimicrobial stewardship and its core elements. Learners will obtain knowledge of syndromic stewardship and how to customize interventions based on community needs. Additionally, learners will hear about system-level interventions using examples of systems in the DC area. For both syndromic and system-level stewardship, proper implementation practices will be reviewed. This module provides 1.5 hours of CME.
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Completion
Cost $0.00
Implicit Bias II: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Settings
Overview: In DC Health’s second module on implicit bias, the concept of implicit bias is overviewed and then expanded on through five scenarios. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from these realistic situations that take place in healthcare settings and review the reasons certain interactions display bias. These interactions may take place at any point during a patient’s care, from a scheduling phone call to the recording of symptoms, and these interactions can even take place amongst coworkers. This implicit bias module recreates healthcare encounters and provides learners with concrete examples so that they may lead the change in creating healthier work environments.
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Completion
  • 0.10 Nursing CEU
Cost $0.00
Pregnancy Related Hypertension and Diabetes: Therapeutic Management
Overview: This module overviews the population health impact of pregnancy related hypertension and diabetes in the District of Columbia and across the country. The course reviews the risk factors, diagnostic criteria, management, and treatment of these conditions so that health professionals can make appropriate treatment recommendations and referrals. This module will be a lecture style format with integrated questions throughout. It will be approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes in length and provide 1.5 hours of CME.
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Completion
Cost $0.00
Gender Affirming Care 101: Providing Hormone Therapy
Overview: This module reviews important terminology, addresses medical biases, and identifies best practices for serving transgender and nonbinary patients.  Users of this module will learn about clinical guidelines for prescribing hormone therapy and will learn about practice changes they can make to ensure patients receive nondiscriminatory care. This module includes a role play demonstration of key concepts.
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Completion
Cost $0.00
Medication Errors: Understanding the Causes and Designing Effective Risk Management Strategies
Overview: The purpose of this module is to engage health care providers (prescribers), pharmacists, and other health care professionals in evidence based practices to avoid medication errors and enhance patient safety. Successful attainment of knowledge by the learner will enable improved awareness and lead to changes in clinical practice measures to overcome common causes of medication errors.  
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Completion
Cost $0.00
Tobacco Cessation
Overview: This module provides an overview of tobacco cessation approaches, and how scientific evidence is applied to support everyday clinical decision-making. Users of this module will learn about the epidemiology of tobacco and nicotine-based products, the underlying neuroscience of nicotine addiction, and assess pharmacologic and behavioral approaches to enable patients to quit their use of them. The course describes clinical strategies, best practices, and community resources that health care practitioners can use to ensure the best results of cessation therapy for their patients.
Category
Format
  • Enduring Material
Credits
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Completion
Cost $0.00

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