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Speaker Series: Grief and Joy in Medicine

Event Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. PST

Presenter: Michael McGee, MD

Location: Attend from your desktop, or phone via Zoom

The practice of medicine entails both grief and joy. This presentation will discuss ways to cope with the grief that comes with practicing with a full and open heart, as well as strategies to cultivate and nurture the joy that comes with serving and healing.

Click here to register for the session and CME credit.

  • 1. Describe the nature of grief and joy in medicine.

    2. Review methods to manage and endure the grief of suffering, illness, loss, and death.

    3. Provide effective and ethical patient care by integrating ways to cultivate and sustain joy in the practice of medicine.

  • As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.

    The following planner/presenter has disclosed the following relationship with an ineligible entity.

    • Colleen Camenisch - Ownership Interest: equilibrium-MBSR, LLC, Mindfulness Standard, LLC

  • This webinar is 1 hour.

    Accreditation Designation Statements

    Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada Physician Wellness Coalition (NWPC). The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians.

    The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Continuing Education Credit

    The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1 hour of nursing continuing education credit.

    Ethics Credit

    This program provides 1 CME credit towards the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to ethics, pain management, or addiction care during each licensure period.

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