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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. Juliet: And so there’s all these systems issues that kind of interact with these important conversations and make it very, very difficult to measure outcomes. And it’s been hard to do that.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? So I think that really questioning what we do is a good thing that routes to improved patient care. I also think it’s really important that we be very clear that advance care planning, as traditionally defined, it goes well beyond palliative care.

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Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold

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Or collaborative revising where they’ll send me a draft and then I’ll read over it but then live will work through changes and have some back and forth rather than I may email, you email me, I email you. Bob: It’s a little bit like patient care, right? It’s more of a conversation. Eric: Yeah.

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