Medicine Grand Rounds - Empathy for the Physician: How COVID Has Reshaped Our Relationships and Lives

Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Medicine Grand Rounds - Empathy for the Physician: How COVID Has Reshaped Our Relationships and Lives, 4/2/2021 8:00:00 AM - 4/2/2024 9:00:00 AM,

Participants in Medicine Grand Rounds will be able to identify the most current treatment guidelines, innovations, and standards of practice, and apply them to improve the care of individual patients, promote health and wellness in the population, and achieve clinical quality and safety goals. These educational activities are grounded in principles of health equity, evidence based medicine, inter-professional teamwork, patient-centered care, and respect for human dignity.

Presenter
Richard M. Frankel, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine

About our presenter: 
Dr. Richard Frankel is a professor of medicine and geriatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine where he directs the Advanced Scholars Program for Internists in Research and Education (ASPIRE) Fellowship. He is also a senior scientist at the VA Center for Healthcare Information and Communication (CHIC) and the Regenstrief Institute. In addition, he holds an appointment in the Lerner School of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Frankel completed his undergraduate studies at Colgate University and obtained a PhD in sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He completed postdoctoral training at Boston University and was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Uppsala, Sweden.

Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to describe three different types of empathy in the context of the emotional challenges of providing care during the COVID19 pandemic, as well as share the power and importance of community and its relationship to resilience and flourishing.

Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.

The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Planning Committee member role was resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by Marc Bertrand, MD, Associate Dean for GME (as alternate for vacant Associate Dean for CME position). All potential conflict(s) were resolved.

* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Fractyl and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion. 

Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.

*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.

Bibliographic Material
See presentation for bibliographic sources to allow for further study.