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Smoking Cessation
This segment contains two scenarios. First, a provider confronts a patient who is a smoker. The physician speaks to the patient about why he smokes and ways that he might quit.
The second scenario, featuring a patient and physician interaction, demonstrates how motivational interviewing can be employed with a patient who is considering smoking cessation. The physician reviews his patient’s reasons for wanting to quit, as well as both positive and negative effects of smoking. He also talks to his patient about his life, his schedule, and what methods might work best for him to quit.
Medical Adherence
This segment also contains two scenarios. In the first, a primary care physician confronts a patient who has failed to regularly take the blood glucose medication that he has prescribed.
In the second scenario, the physician speaks to the patient about her medical adherence using motivational interviewing techniques, including asking her about her habits, responsibilities and other aspects of her life that might be interfering with her taking her medication regularly.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, and social workers.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Apply specific clinical scenarios of Motivational Interviewing methodology for Smoking Cessation.
- Apply specific clinical scenarios of Motivational Interviewing methodology for Medical Adherence.
- Assess communication techniques for interacting with patients contemplating behavioral change.
Additional Information
Massachusetts General Hospital & Partners HealthCare System
Michael Bierer, MD, MPH
Associate Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Michael is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) where he has been on staff since 1988. Michael has developed an addictions and pain-oriented clinical practice nested in a general primary care clinic at MGH. He has been involved in educating colleagues and trainees in the management of addictions and complicated pain problems and holds responsibility of this curriculum for the internal medicine residents at the hospital. Dr. Bierer may be heard frequently as the voice of the New England Journal of Medicine podcasts. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Michael holds an MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and an MPH in health policy and management from Harvard School of Public Health.
Accreditation
Partners HealthCare System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Partners HealthCare System designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Professions
This course allows other providers to claim a Participation Certificate upon successful completion of this course. Participation Certificates will specify the title, location, type of activity, date of activity, and number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM associated with the activity. Providers should check with their regulatory agencies to determine ways in which AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM may or may not fulfill continuing education requirements. Providers should also consider saving copies of brochures, agenda, and other supporting documents.
Faculty Disclosure Statement
In accord with the disclosure policy of Partners HealthCare System as well as guidelines of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), planners, speakers and/or their spouse/partner or anyone who may have an influence on the content of the activity have been asked to disclose any relationship they or their spouse/partner have to companies producing pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, devices, etc. that may be germane to the content of their presentation. Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias, but provides participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given presentation.
Resolution of Conflicts of Interest (COI)
Partners HealthCare System has implemented a process to resolve potential COIs for this CME activity to help ensure content objectivity, independence, fair balance and ensure that the content is aligned with the interest of the public.
The following planner and/or their spouse/partner has reported no relevant financial relationship with a commercial interest:
Michael Bierer, MD, MPH
Robert Birnbaum, MD, PhD - Reviewer
The following speaker and/or their spouse/partner has reported no relevant financial relationship with a commercial interest:
Michael Bierer, MD, MPH
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Expiration Date: May 26, 2021
Review Date: May 27, 2020 by Robert J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
Available Credit
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 Participation
Price
For questions, contact Partners Office of Continuing Professional Development at partnerscpd@partners.org.
Required Hardware/software
The EthosCE standard install will support the two most recent stable releases of the following browsers for all public pages, both authenticated users and anonymous: Internet Explorer, Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox. EthosCE supports these browsers by default. Other browsers may work also; however, non-listed browsers are not officially supported.