Description

Overview
This course is designed for healthcare professionals who work with child, adolescent, and young adult patients to build their understanding of PIMU, including its different presentations and comorbidities, and how to prevent, recognize, and respond to it in a clinical setting.

Course Format
This course will be fully virtual and presented via Zoom. In addition, it will be available on-demand for all paid attendees for six weeks after the course.

This course aims to:  

• Introduce clinicians to PIMU and its different presentations and co-morbidities in the context of cognitive and behavioral development and mental health. 
• Offer insights about how to recognize young people’s motivations for using digital technology, and understand PIMU and other media-related effects on physical, psychological, social, and academic health; and 
• Provide clinicians with therapeutic and educational strategies for PIMU treatment and other media-related physical, psychological, and developmental issues.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. Be able to integrate conversations about media and tech use into appointments with patients and families
2. Recognize the signs and symptoms of PIMU and its subtypes
3. Understand methods of addressing PIMU with a youth population 

Registration

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

Accreditation

 

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital 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.

 

 

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of  5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Physician Assistant
Boston Children’s Hospital has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 5.5 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychology
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

This course has been approved for 5.5 continuing education credits.

Social Work
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston Children’s Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Boston Children’s Hospital maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 5.5 ACE CE continuing education credits.

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: 

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, PhD

Annabel Kuhn, MD