The Art of Creating and Sustaining Interprofessional Teams to Provide Comprehensive Care Throughout the Patient Journey

Comprehensive care of patients with cancer and survivors requires effective multidisciplinary, interprofessional teams to treat the disease, manage side effects, and assist with psychosocial issues. Clinicians need to be educated on the vast and varied impact cancer can have on individuals, the barriers to receipt of high-quality care, and the various professionals who can be part of their team to provide comprehensive care and improve patient outcomes. Information on approaches to build, maintain, and support such teams is also needed so that patients can benefit.

Target Audience

This program is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and other health care professionals who manage patients with cancer.

Learning Objectives

Following this program, participants should be able to:

  • Describe the spectrum of physical, emotional and psychosocial effects of cancer and cancer treatment on patients and survivors.
  • Explain how various members of the interprofessional team can help support patients, survivors, and caregivers by providing education, managing side effects, and addressing psychosocial problems to maximize quality of life.
  • Discuss approaches to building and maintaining effective multidisciplinary, interprofessional teams to provide comprehensive care to patients with cancer and survivors.

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Additional information
Supporters: 

This activity is supported by educational grants from AstraZeneca; Coherus BioSciences; Genentech, a member of the Roche Group; Gilead Sciences,Inc.; GSK; Janssen Biotech, Inc., administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC; Novartis; and NOVOCURE. This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from Bristol Myers Squibb. This educational activity is supported by a medical education grant from Exelixis, Inc. This activity is supported by a grant from Pfizer Inc.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credit
  • 1.00 ACPE contact hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC contact hours
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
05/15/2023
Course expires: 
03/01/2024
Cost:
$0.00
Part of: 
Recorded Presentations from the NCCN 2023 Oncology Fellows Program: New Horizons in Quality Cancer Care

Wui-Jin Koh, MD
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Gwen Darien
National Patient Advocate Foundation

Susan E. Franco, RN, BSN, OCN
Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

Timothy Kubal, MD, MBA
Moffitt Cancer Center

 

NCCN Continuing Education Disclosure Policy
It is the policy of NCCN that all planners, faculty, moderators, authors, reviewers and anyone involved in the planning and delivery of NCCN continuing education activities are expected to disclose ALL financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. The ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence require that individuals who refuse to provide this information will be disqualified from involvement in the planning and implementation of accredited continuing education presented by NCCN. NCCN identifies, mitigates and discloses to learners all relevant financial relationships.

In addition, all content has been reviewed to ensure education promotes safe, effective patient care and does not promote the products or services of an ineligible company. Content, including any presentation of therapeutic options, is fair, balanced, evidence-based, scientifically accurate, and free of commercial bias and marketing. 

Definitions  

Ineligible Company: An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Relevant Financial Relationships: Financial relationships of any dollar amount occurring within the past 24 months are defined as relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of an ineligible company. There is no minimum financial threshold. We ask for disclosure of ALL financial relationships with ineligible companies, regardless of the amount and regardless of the potential relevance of each relationship to the education.

Faculty Disclaimers  

All faculty for this continuing education activity are competent in the subject matter and qualified by experience, training, and/or preparation for the tasks and methods of delivery.

Faculty presentations may include discussion of off-label use. Faculty will disclose that the use in question is not currently approved by the FDA per the product labeling or marketing.

Faculty and Moderator Disclosures

The faculty listed below have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Gwen Darien
Susan E. Franco, RN, BSN, OCN
Wui-Jin Koh, MD

The faculty listed below have the following relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Timothy Kubal, MD, MBA
Apellis Pharmaceuticals: Consulting Fee

NCCN Staff Disclosures

The planners listed below have the following relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Crystal S. Denlinger, MD
Agios, Inc.: Grant/Research Support 
Amgen Inc.: Grant/Research Support
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP: Grant/Research Support 
BeiGene: Scientific Advisor; Grant/Research Support
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company: Scientific Advisor; Grant/Research Support 
Eli Lilly and Company: Grant/Research Support
Exelixis Inc.: Grant/Research Support 
Genmab: Grant/Research Support 
MacroGenics: Grant/Research Support 
MedImmune Inc: Grant/Research Support 
Merck & Co., Inc.: Scientific Advisor
sanofi-aventis U.S.: Grant/Research Support 
Taiho Pharmaceutials Co., Ltd.: Scientific Advisor
Zymeworks: Scientific Advisor; Grant/Research Support

None of the other planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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In support of improving patient care, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians
NCCN designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
NCCN designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour.

Pharmacists
NCCN designates this knowledge-based continuing education activity for 1.0 contact hour (0.10 CEUs) of continuing education credit. UAN: JA4008196-0000-23-040-H01-P

Physician Assistants 
NCCN has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credit. Approval is valid until March 1, 2024. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credit
  • 1.00 ACPE contact hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC contact hours
  • 1.00 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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