ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Courses
This Learning Pathway includes all CAPC online courses that provide Maintenance of Certification credits for ABIM-boarded physicians.
An introduction to palliative care, how it is delivered, its impact on quality of life, and the growing population of patients who need it.
Pain Management
Conducting a comprehensive pain assessment to guide safe and effective treatment.
Selecting a safe and appropriate analgesic for patients with serious illness based on the pain assessment.
Patient and family factors that influence prescribing decisions for patients with serious illness.
Integrating routine risk assessment for substance use disorder when considering or using opioid therapy.
Designing a safe and effective opioid trial for the patient with serious illness.
Safe and appropriate opioid prescribing for the opioid-naive patient with serious illness.
Four indications for using short-acting opioids.
Ongoing evaluation of opioid benefits, risks, and side effects for the patient with serious illness.
Guidance on safe conversion to long-acting opioids for patients with serious illness.
Prescribing practice for long half-life opioids, converting from one opioid to another, and accounting for incomplete cross-tolerance.
Changing the route of opioid delivery, rotating opioids, advanced opioid conversions, and tapering opioids.
Safe opioid prescribing in older adults, cognitively impaired patients, children, and the imminently dying, including patient-controlled analgesia.
Pain management for patients with serious illness and high risk for substance use disorder, including risk assessment, monitoring, and when to refer for safe pain management.
Safe opioid prescribing for patients with serious illness, using the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Guidelines for the Chronic Use of Opioid Analgesics.
Symptom Management
Nausea and vomiting are common symptoms of serious illness, and can cause dangerous complications. Take this online course to learn practical skills to identify, manage, and reduce these symptoms.
Take this online course to learn evidence-based strategies to identify and treat anxiety in patients with a serious illness.
This online course teaches how to accurately identify and treat depression in patients living with a serious illness.
Take this online course to learn how to manage dyspnea, including the physical causes of shortness of breath and the emotional impact on the patient.
Constipation occurs in at least 70% of patients living with a serious illness and often goes unrecognized. Take this online course to learn critical skills to identify and manage the impact of constipation.
Communication Skills
Communicating serious clinical news to patients and families.
How to discuss patient prognosis in a manner that is sensitive, clear, and supportive.
Strategies for eliciting patient goals and preferences to inform treatment decisions.
Communication techniques for an effective family meeting.
How to initiate and conduct conversations about advance care planning.
Best Practices in Dementia Care and Caregiver Support
Disclosing a dementia diagnosis to patients and caregivers in a way that is sensitive, clear, and supportive.
Helping patients and caregivers understand challenges they may face as dementia worsens.
Enabling patients and caregivers to plan ahead for the financial, legal, and other impacts of dementia.
Assessing for caregiver burden and connecting caregivers to needed support systems.
Strategies for understanding and addressing the sources of behavioral symptoms for people living with dementia.
Addressing common sources of suffering for people living with dementia.
Addressing common sources of suffering for people living with advanced dementia.
Relief of Suffering Across the Disease Trajectory
Managing Gaps in Care: Discipline-Specific Approaches
Communication and assessment techniques for case managers to elicit goals of care and address suffering for people with serious illness.
The role of the direct care worker in observing and reporting suffering in patients with serious illness.
Preventing Crises Through Whole-Patient Care
Assessing and supporting caregivers of people with serious illness.
Guidance for all clinicians on improving communication and ensuring smooth transitions of care for patients living with serious illness.
This course provides context and best practices for identifying older adults at risk for poor outcomes, including falls, delirium, and caregiving challenges.
Building Physician Skills in Basic Advance Care Planning
Identify the role of physicians and advanced practitioners in introducing patients to ACP.
Build physicians’ and advanced practitioners’ skills in guiding and documenting ACP conversations.
Ways for physicians and advanced practitioners to integrate and bill for ACP in their practice.
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