2022 Texas Oncology Shareholder Meeting - Truth Telling, Prognosis, and Communication with Hope - 20220402

April 2, 2022

This poignant session will discuss practice scenarios for serious illness communication  and facilitate assimilation of strategies to guide the physician to provide care for patients and families in uncertain times.

Target Audience

  • Physicians

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Articulate the ethical foundation of truth telling
  • Outline our prognostic failures as a profess and the prognostic failure cascade
  • Explain patient and family desires for honest prognosis and decisional control preferences
  • Define hope in a medical context and recognize hope's transcendence
  • Use basic serious illness communication strategy, recognize the pitfalls of surrogacy and utilize palliative paternalism
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
    • 1.00 Ethics
  • 1.00 Attendance
    • 1.00 Ethics
Course opens: 
03/24/2022
Course expires: 
06/30/2022
Event starts: 
04/02/2022 - 12:00pm CDT
Event ends: 
04/02/2022 - 1:00pm CDT
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Dallas, TX
United States

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
    • 1.00 Ethics
  • 1.00 Attendance
    • 1.00 Ethics
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