Program Description: 

Together In Care is a year-long webinar based educational series focused on neonatal-perinatal palliative care concepts for neonatal teams. Our goals include equipping neonatal team members with the competencies and comfort to utilize primary palliative care skills and recognize when to collaborate with specialty palliative care. 

 
Keywords: CME, EthosCE, Best Practices, MCW
Target audience: 
  • Physicians
  • NPs
  • PAs
  • Nurses
Learning objectives: 
Participants who engage in this educational intervention will be able to:
  • Describe the breadth of palliative care services available for patients from the prenatal to neonatal period.
  • Provide primary palliative care for patients and families in the perinatal and neonatal setting.
  • Describe bereavement care and symptom management for neonatal patients at the end of life
Faculty & credentials: 
Activity Director(s):
Erin Rholl, MD., M.A.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics 
Attending Physician, Neonatology & Pediatric Palliative Care 
Medical College of Wisconsin 
 
 
Planning Committee:
Christine Pazandak, MD
Gretell Gomez, MD
Carrie Hecox, NP
Sara Anderson, NP
Fran McCarthy
Emilie Lamberg-Jones
Blyth Lord, Courageous Parent Network
 
 
In accordance with the ACCME® Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Standard 3, all in control of content must disclose any relevant financial relationships. The following in control of content had no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
  • Erin Rholl, MD., M.A.
  • Christine Pazandak, MD
  • Gretell Gomez, MD
  • Carrie Hecox, NP
  • Sara Anderson, NP
  • Fran McCarthy
  • Emilie Lamberg-Jones
  • Blyth Lord, Courageous Parent Network

 

Contact

Name: 
Jaclyn Luckow
Phone number: 
+1 (414) 266-6820
Email: 
jluckow@mcw.edu
Series date: 
01/01/2025 - 1:00am CST to 12/31/2025 - 11:59pm CST
ACCME Accreditation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
AMA Credit Designation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Hours of Participation for Allied Health Care Professionals:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 1.00 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.
 
Nurse Practitioner:
The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. is approved as a provider of nurse practitioner continuing education by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners: AANP Provider Number 150930. This program has been approved for up to .5 contact hours of continuing education (which includes 0 hours of pharmacology). Nurse Practitioners should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.
 
Nursing:
Children’s Wisconsin is approved by the Wisconsin Nurses Association as a provider of nursing and continuing professional development and is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who participate and complete an evaluation are awarded 1.0 nursing contact hours

MOC Part II:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity and individual assessment of and feedback to the learner, enables the learner to earn up to 2 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

Participation shared with ABP through PARS:

Individual participants’ information will be shared with ABP through the ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).

Group description: 
Pediatrics
Series location: 
Virtual
WI
United States
See map: Google Maps

Sessions

Session Date
21505 Session Template 01/01/2025 - 8:00am to 9:00am CST
Together in Care- General Introduction to Neonatal-Perinatal Palliative Care 02/10/2025 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST
Together in Care- It’s not a gift, it’s a skill: becoming an expert communicator 03/25/2025 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm CDT