Pediatrics: Strategies for Coordinating Care
Course description
In a busy practice and in the presence of time and productivity pressures, coordinating care for pediatric patients often poses a challenge. However, to optimize treatment outcomes and promote overall well-being, coordination of care is essential. Providing comprehensive individualized care requires collaboration between healthcare professionals, psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, and community agencies and support systems.
In this presentation, Dr. Khadijah Booth Watkins will provide an understanding of the essential elements of treatment planning and coordinating care. She will outline strategies to foster adherence, integrate services and encourage open lines of communication among providers. Coordination of care is necessary to provide comprehensive care and improve patient outcomes.
Learning objectives
At the conclusion of this learning activity, participants will be able to:
- Summarize the components of effective treatment plans
- Explain the importance of collaboration and coordination of care as well as methods of communication when treating pediatric patients
- Summarize the clinician’s role in fostering adherence to the treatment plan
- Identify the symptoms of a patient struggling with a mental health condition and potential barriers to treatment
Target audience
Physician and clinician policyholders
Disclosure
There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined commercial interests for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.
CME information
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 the Illinois State Medical Society and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company. The Illinois State Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Illinois State Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Illinois Nurse Practice Act rules deem CME credit provided by approved sponsors as acceptable to fulfill nursing continuing education requirements for licensure. Nurses may claim one contact hour per unit of CME in the state of Illinois.
Additional information
The recommendations contained in this resource are not intended to define conduct that is appropriate in every case, should not be considered as establishing any standard of care, and do not constitute legal advice. Physicians, clinicians and healthcare providers should take care to ensure that all care rendered reflects the best clinical judgment and complies with the laws and regulations of the state or location at which the care was provided.
Khadijah Booth Watkins, MD, MPH
Khadijah Booth Watkins, MD, MPH, is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program of the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital the Associate Director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Associate Director of the Psychiatry Clerkship at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Watkins received her Bachelor of Science degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine, and her Master of Public Health from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, with an emphasis on healthcare and hospital policy and management.
Dr. Watkins completed her internship in internal medicine and general psychiatry residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School prior to fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital combined program of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College. Following her child and adolescent psychiatry training, she completed a two-year public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Following post-graduate training, Dr. Watkins joined the faculty of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry. She later joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College as an assistant professor of psychiatry, until June 2019, at which point she joined the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Watkins has contributed to textbooks and journals and has presented locally and nationally on topics related to anxiety, school refusal, parenting, diversity, equity and inclusion, suicide prevention and physician wellness. Additionally, she has consulted for several mental health organizations, television, as well as online and video media outlets.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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 the Illinois State Medical Society and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company. The Illinois State Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Illinois State Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.00 Discount Credit
- 1.00 Participation Credit
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