NOC 2022 Disclosure Information

Planners/ Speakers:

• Naomi Moeller, Boston University School of Medicine CME/CNE Office, has no relevant financial relationships.
• Carmela A. Townsend, DNP, MS/MBA, RN, Lead Nurse Planner, Boston University School of Medicine CME/CNE Office, has no relevant financial relationships.
• Amy Smith, CNE Course Advisor has no relevant financial relationships.
• Lynette Henshaw, PharmD, CME Reviewer, has no relevant financial relationships.
• Jasmine Patel, PharmD, CME Reviewer is a speaker for AbbVie and was on the Myovant Ad Board.
• Regina Gibson-Burtnick, BBA, CAE, has no relevant financial relationships.
• Sandra Megally has no relevant financial relationships.
• Zinkeng Asonganyi, PharmD has no relevant financial relationships.
• Endo MHA, BS RTT has no relevant financial relationships.
• Matthew A. Manning MD has investments with Fuse Oncology. He does not plan on discussing unlabeled/ investigational uses of a commercial product.
• Monique J. Marino has no relevant financial relationships.
• Katie Michaud, MPA, FACHE, has no relevant financial relationships.
• Angelia Palahunik has no relevant financial relationships.
• Anne Marie Rainey, MSN RN CHC has no relevant financial relationships.
• Mark Wojtowicz MS, MBA has no relevant financial relationships.
• Billie J. Baldwin has no relevant financial relationships.
• Mo Barbosa has no relevant financial relationships.
• Carly Caminiti MS has no relevant financial relationships.
• Erica C. DeBoer, RN, MA CCRN, CNL, has no relevant financial relationships.
• Debra Delaney has no relevant financial relationships.
• Allison Held has no relevant financial relationships.
• Erin Heuser MBOE has no relevant financial relationships.
• Stephanie Hobbs MHSM, CMPE has no relevant financial relationships.
• Julie Holmes has no relevant financial relationships.
• Sanford E. Jeames has no relevant financial relationships.
• Michael Koroscik has no relevant financial relationships.
• Zoe Larned has no relevant financial relationships.
• Juan Lombeida MD has no relevant financial relationships. He does plan on discussing unlabeled/investigational uses of a commercial product.
• Morgan Nestingen has no relevant financial relationships.
• Lailea Noel has no relevant financial relationships.
• Meagan O’Neill has no relevant financial relationships.
• Tania Silva Santos has no relevant financial relationships.
• Barbara Schmidtman has no relevant financial relationships.
• Lawrence D. Wagman has no relevant financial relationships.
• Laurie Jo Wallace has no relevant financial relationships.

Accreditation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Boston University School of Medicine and the Association of Community Cancer Centers. Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Boston University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Boston University School of Medicine Continuing Nursing Education is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity has been provided by Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University School of Medicine and jointly provided by the Association of Community Cancer Centers.

Contact Hours: 11.75

Pharmacists:

Thursday, October 13, 2022

The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This is an application-based educational activity. Pharmacists will receive 6.25 contact hours (6.25 CEUS) for the educational activity. No partial credit is available.

UNIVERSAL ACTIVITY NUMBER (UAN) 0060-9999-22-080-L01-P

Friday, October 14, 2022

The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This is an application-based educational activity. Pharmacists will receive 5.5 contact hours (.55 CEUS) for the educational activity. No partial credit is available.

UNIVERSAL ACTIVITY NUMBER (UAN) 0060-9999-22-081-L01-P

Learning Objectives

At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

Thursday, October 13

• Apply a new approach to innovation that leverages technology and focuses on finding and delivering everyday improvements or “micro-innovations.”
• Design a legal and healthcare partnership to help patients with cancer resolve social and environmental factors that contribute to health disparities and have a remedy in civil law.
• Organize a process for using push reminders and digital tools to allow patients to take and upload vital signs to their providers, helping reduce ED visits and admissions.
• Extend diagnostic services from the inpatient to the outpatient setting by offering same or next day in-person or virtual appointments for diagnostic testing.
• Locate a primary care physician in a cancer clinic to improve patient access and care coordination, decrease patient stress, address comorbidities, and reduce treatment delays.
• Evaluate existing processes and leverage readily available technology to improve patient compliance to oral oncolytic education, consent, and adherence standards.
• Discuss the importance of the interconnection of internal bias training and community engagement.
• Understand how to build trust and cultural humility and develop productive and sustainable community engagement and coalition building.
• Outline strategies for proactively engaging diverse perspectives within coalitions and the role they play in the development of goals and tasks.
• Identify how personal values and assumptions impact cancer programs and practices, co-workers, patients with cancer, and their caregivers and families.
• Show the importance of culturally relevant information and how it’s critical to working effectively with BIPOC patients, family, and communities.
• Discuss the important role of values and articulate how assumptions operate in their cancer programs and practices to better treat and communicate with colleagues and all patients.
• Identify strategies to mitigate stress and re-find the joy of working in a cancer care setting.
• Examine your own self-care needs and how to advocate for yourselves, your staff, and/or your colleagues.

Friday, October 14

• Apply artificial intelligence technology to improve nurse scheduling, reduce patient wait times, and maximize the use of available resources like exam rooms, infusion chairs, and equipment.
• Compare findings from a Mini-Z Burnout Survey Deployed Pre- and Post-COVID 19 and plan strategies to help reduce burnout in the oncology workforce.
• Identify talent within a cancer team, compare leadership traits, study recruitment and retention trends, and discuss case studies of effective talent selection and leadership development.
• Design a model palliative care program in a private practice setting to improve the patient experience and patient outcomes and reduce costs.
• Recognize practical strategies for creating sustainable oncology practice models during or following periods of staffing shortages or work force disruptions.
• Organize tactical approaches to maximize capacity and achieve program growth, while simultaneously reducing labor costs.
• Define industry workforce trends and satisfaction drivers for healthcare providers and staff.
• Support staff-led role design, the revision of job descriptions, and the crafting of professional development ladders to advance staff professionally with minimal leadership oversight.
• Consider how development of a career ladder and a departmental restructure that decentralized clinical services and consolidates and centralized operations improved retention.
• Develop interventions and employee education grounded in management, leadership, social work, and psychology theory and organized around self-care, intentional rounding, and team building.
• Design a clinical risk stratification program, organize analytic and organizational support to minimize clinical variation and costs, and prioritize tactical and design solutions, like oncology urgent care and patient digital health tools, to improve population health management.
• Discuss the importance of the interconnection of internal bias training and community engagement.
• Understand how to build trust and cultural humility and develop productive and sustainable community engagement and coalition building.
• Outline strategies for proactively engaging diverse perspectives within coalitions and the role they play in the development of goals and tasks.
• Identify how personal values and assumptions impact cancer programs and practices, co-workers, patients with cancer, and their caregivers and families.
• Show the importance of culturally relevant information and how it’s critical to working effectively with BIPOC patients, family, and communities.
• Discuss the important role of values and articulate how assumptions operate in their cancer programs and practices to better treat and communicate with colleagues and all patients.
• Identify strategies to mitigate stress and re-find the joy of working in a cancer care setting.
• Examine your own self-care needs and how to advocate for yourselves, your staff, and/or your colleagues.

How to Claim Your CME and CNE Certificate:

To earn credit, you must stay for the entire program and follow the directions below to complete the evaluation.  You will need to create a new account at https://cme.bu.edu if you do not already have one.

1. Navigate to: https://cme.bu.edu/NOC22
2. Create a new account or log in to complete the components
3. Click the register or take course button to proceed
4. Click on the start course button on the bottom of the page to start the evaluation.
5. Follow the red prompts to claim your certificate

Please contact cme@bu.edu or 617-358-5005 with any questions.

Disclosure Information

THESE MATERIALS AND ALL OTHER MATERIALS PROVIDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES ARE INTENDED SOLELY FOR PURPOSES OF SUPPLEMENTING CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.  ANYONE USING THE MATERIALS ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND ALL RISK FOR THEIR APPROPRIATE USE.  TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WHATSOEVER REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE MATERIALS.  IN NO EVENT WILL TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION TAKEN IN RELIANCE ON THE MATERIALS.  IN NO EVENT SHOULD THE INFORMATION IN THE MATERIALS BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL CARE.  IN NO EVENT SHOULD INFORMATION IN THE MATERIALS.