Medical Educational Resource
Caregiver Support Across the Multidisciplinary Care Continuum
Activity Snapshot
This program is supported in part by an independent medical education grant from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.
Faculty
Ambereen Mehta and Michelle McWhirter from Johns Hopkins Medicine provide an overview of important considerations to optimize support for caregivers of adult patients with neuromuscular disease (NMD). The webinar reviews sources of caregiver stress, evolving caregiver needs over the course of disease, the impacts of caregiver strain, strategies to assess caregiver strain, and interventions to manage caregiver strain.
- To review sources of caregiver stress
- To identify caregiver needs as they change with disease progression
- To explain the impact of caregiver strain
- To describe how to assess for caregiver strain
- To provide interventions to manage caregiver strain
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of PeerPoint Medical Education Institute and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
PeerPoint Medical Education Institute is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PeerPoint Medical Education Institute designates the enduring format for this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Dates: February 15, 2021 – February 14, 2022
Once you have viewed the program, MDA will share back with you instructions for how to obtain your CME credits. If you have questions on this process, please reach out to cmemanagement@mdausa.org.
The following presenters, planners, editors, or staff have relevant financial relationships to disclose:
“I, or an immediate family member, have at present or have had within the last 12 months, the following affiliation with one or more organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in context to the design, implementation, presentation, evaluation, etc. of CME Activities.”
All other presenters, planners, editors, or staff report no relevant relationships to disclose:
“I, or an immediate family member, do not have at present, or within the last 12 months, nor anticipate having financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in context to the design, implementation, presentation, evaluation, etc. of CME Activities.”
Educational grants have been received from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America.