Navigating the Mind-Field: Practical Applications of Bioethics When Patient’s Capacity is Compromised

Friday, July 30, 2021, 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Online preregistration is closed. For questions contact the Virginia Mason CME department at (206) 341-0142.

All clinicians face ethical issues when navigating treatments for patients. An
increased number of patients present with compromised capacity in the setting of
prognostic uncertainty, and clinicians have few tools to help sort through these
complex aliments with their patients and families. This educational day offers some
practical approaches to some of the common ethical questions clinicians face,
including:

• How should we help a patient plan when a new diagnosis of dementia is given?
• How do clinicians decide what treatments to offer patients?
• Should evidence-based practice override a patient’s request to take risks?
• Should we coerce a patient who lacks capacity to participate in a treatment or
  transition to a new residence?
• How do we help a patient’s family navigate treatments when the outcome is
  uncertain?

Teaching methods include lecture, panel discussion, case presentation, small
group breakout sessions, patient experience, audience response system and Q&A
with faculty.

1. Identify ethical values at stake in complex neurological cases that contain high levels of uncertainty in diagnosis or prognosis
2. Identify common terms in health care ethics
3. Discuss circumstances in which decision-making capacity should be considered, and apply the core elements of capacity to a clinical situation
4. Explain the concept of “shared decision-making” and its variable definition for patients vs. providers
5. Discuss the options for advance care planning which are most useful for dementia

Tuition: $165.00

The Virginia Mason Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Virginia Mason Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.5 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Nursing Contact Hours: Virginia Mason is a provider of continuing education contact hours. Provider is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP15905 for 6.5 Contact Hours. RN contact hour certificates must be retained by the licensee/attendee for a period of 4 years after the course ends.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ (6.50 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (6.50 hours), CE Nursing (6.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.50 hours)

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Virginia Mason Medical Center adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Friday, July 30, 2021