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

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But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? And it I think really highlights how that’s a very blurry line.

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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. But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself. And it’s been hard to do that.

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

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Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? Alex: This was the National Palliative Care Research Center’s Annual Foley retreat for investigators, researchers. Bob: It’s a little bit like patient care, right? And it was a wonderful talk on mentoring. Eric: Yeah.

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