EthicsLab Essentials Goals of Care

Goals of care is a term so common to health care professionals and yet, our guests describe significant clinical experiences in which the lack of discussion around goals of care led to problematic cases. A goals of care conversation is an important element at the foundation of high quality discussions around code status. In this episode lead contributor Mark Repenshek, Executive Director of Ethics and Mission at Hospital Sisters Health System in Wisconsin, is in conversation with national experts and clinicians who discuss this important topic.

Our guests in this episode are:

• Dr. Kenneth A. Berkowitz, MD FCCP Chief, Ethics Consultation at VHA National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Associate Professor of Medicine and Population Health at NYU School of Medicine
• Dr. Tim Jessick, DO, Chair/Co-Founder Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin
  Palliative Medicine Physician, AdvocateAuroraHealth
• Dr. Jill S. Lowery, Psy.D., Chief, Ethics Policy, National Center for Ethics in Health Care at Veterans Health Administration
• Dr. James A. Tulsky, MD, Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Chief, Division of Palliative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

After registration, participants pursuing CME credit must complete the following steps:

• Step 1: review and acknowledge the EthicsLab Essentials Goals of Care accreditation and disclosure statements and complete pre-test to evaluate participant knowledge before listening to the podcast episode
• Step 2: listen to the EthicsLab Essentials Goals of Care podcast episode
• Step 3: complete post test to evaluate participant knowledge gained after listening to the podcast episode
• Step 4: complete evaluation

Once all steps have been successfully completed, participants are issued a PDF certificate that can be printed or saved electronically for submission to accreditation boards.