PALTC23 Conference Recordings SA13 Using Documentary and Narratives in PALTC for Medical Education and Staff Retention

Using Documentary and Narratives in PALTC for Medical Education and Staff Retention

Core concepts and modalities of documentary and narrative medicine will be reviewed. A QI project using documentary in medical education to tell residents’ life stories will be presented, including the positive impact the project had on the staff in PALTC. We will showcase two examples of documentary in PALTC used in medical education. The session will end with a roundtable discussion and brainstorming for participants to determine where they can employ documentary and narrative medicine to promote PALTC, education, staff engagement, joy at work, and reduce burnout and/ or turnover.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Describe core concepts and modalities of documentary and narrative medicine.
  • Identify the benefits of using documentary and narrative medicine for medical education and for long-term care promotion.
  • Formulate ideas where documentary in medicine may be implemented and apply learned principles/ techniques in your own healthcare setting.

Gwendolen Buhr, MD, MHS, MEd, CMD

Gwendolen Buhr, MD, MHS, MEd, CMD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics at Duke University Medical Center. She works as an educator and clinician teaching and practicing in the primary care and long‐term care setting. She earned her MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, completed residency in Internal Medicine at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC, and then went on to do a geriatrics fellowship at Duke University. Dr. Buhr also has a Master of Education degree from North Carolina State University.

Lidia Vognar, MD, MHS, CMD

Lidia Vognar, MD, MHS, CMD, is an Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Brown University. She teaches medical students, residents and geriatric fellows in the long term care setting. Dr. Vognar is the program director of the Roger Williams Geriatric fellowship, co-coordinator of the Life Sustaining Treatment Initiative at the Providence VA and medical director to two home base acute care models, Care at Home and Home Based Primary Care programs.

Joanna Abi Chebl

Joanna Abi Chebl graduated medical school from University of Balamand in Lebanon and has a degree in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine from University of Balamand, Lebanon. Currently, she joined the Geriatric Fellowship program at Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, RI.

  • 1.0 CME
  • 1.0 CMD Management 
  • 1.0 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.0 management hours toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. Each physician should claim only those credit hours that he/she actually spent in the activity. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.

The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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