10 Oct Over 3200 SOC Online Courses Completed with No Cost CME Credit
Over 3200 Supportive Oncology Training Courses were completed by medical professionals online, earning them continuing medical education credits for no cost. We developed these training videos to increase the number of medical professionals trained to deliver quality supportive oncology care. These educational programs, most of which are under an hour, are designed to meet the educational needs of oncologists, nurses, physician assistants, social workers, and other health care/oncology professionals who manage patients with cancer. The training videos are housed on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Continuing Education website.
Supportive Oncology Training Courses offer free CME credit
To access the videos, and receive free CME credit, users need to register on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN) Continuing Education website.
Courses include:
- Supportive Oncology Care and Documenting Patient’s Supportive Needs
- Distress: Impact on Care, Screening for Distress, and Addressing Distress
- How to Discuss Practical and Family Concerns with Patients and Families
- Cancer Survivorship Defined, Identification of Patient Needs at Survivorship Visit, and Commission on Cancer’s Requirements for Survivorship Care Plans
- Comprehensive Care for Cancer Survivors
- Survivorship Factors: Lifestyle and Behavior, Common Psychosocial Challenges, and Common Late and Long-term Effects
- Cancer Survivor Screening and Prevention Strategies and Genetic Testing for Patients, Families, and Survivors
- Pain Assessment: The Basics
- Pain Management: Beyond the Basics
- How to Communicate Prognosis
- Goals of Care and Advance Care Planning over Time
- POLST Paradigm – Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Paradigm
- Addressing Symptoms that Impact Quality of Life: Nausea/Vomiting, Constipation, Dyspnea & Shortness of Breath
- Primary Palliative Care vs. Specialized Palliative Care and Reasons to Refer to Hospice and Palliative Care