Mayo Clinic Pain and Palliative Medicine 2020

Pain Medicine for the Non-Pain Specialist 2020 in Half Moon Bay, California targets the integration of pain services across disciplines to address the national and international movement toward improved pain control. The CME course includes spine care review, pharmacologic management with opioid and non-opioid strategies and updates on common chronic pain conditions.

Palliative Medicine in Clinical Practice will serve as a review and update on the most recent advances in the management of palliative medicine clinical scenarios that face internists, family practitioners, hospitalists, palliative medicine providers, hospice team members, oncologists and other subspecialists in their daily practices. The Continuing Medical Education course is intended to provide an intensive, practical review with an emphasis on evidence based approaches to everyday problems that span the realm of palliative medicine and hospice.

This multidisciplinary CME course provides synergistic content, relevant to primary care providers and specialty practitioners who care for patients with a serious illness and/or those patients experience pain. The course provides concise reviews, broader themed panels, breakout sessions and expert demonstrations across a range or relevant topics, including: spine care review, pharmacologic management with opioid and non-opioid strategies, updates on common chronic pain conditions, critical conversation skills, review of symptom management, quality of life interventions, CBT options, cancer considerations, delirium management, side-effect mitigation strategies.

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