Integrative Therapies in Hospice and Palliative Care Program:
Massage Therapy and Touch Interventions

Earn up to 3 CE/CME Credits with Self-Paced, Reflective Learning

Help your patients have effective whole-person care.
Gain new confidence in advising patients on integrative therapies.
Increase patient and family satisfaction with your services.
Help your organization be a leader in Integrative Care.

What You’ll Learn in This Course

Learn about current uses of massage therapy and touch interventions in hospice and palliative care settings from leading experts in the field. This comprehensive self-paced online course offers up to 3 CE/CME credits for health care professionals, with exclusive content by Gayle MacDonald, MS, LMT, founder of Oncology Massage Education Associates in Portland, OR, and a founding member of the Society for Oncology Massage.

Key Take-Aways: What You’ll Get

You will learn everything you need to know about making evidence-informed recommendations of massage therapy and touch interventions in hospice and palliative care settings. Topics include:

Theory and mechanisms of action
Common uses in palliative care populations
Indications and contraindications
Safety precautions
Logistical and practical needs for delivery
Cost and payment strategies
Credentialing of providers
Evidence for symptoms seen in palliative care
Common questions and myths
How to communicate about the modality with patients, family members and colleagues

The course also gives you resource links to more detailed information and key studies, and a downloadable evidence table (PDF) summarizing key studies on use with common symptoms seen in palliative care, with PubMed links and a grading system for confidence in treatment recommendations.

Proven Impact on Practice!

This course is one of nine that form the Integrative Therapies in Hospice and Palliative Care Program. The National Cancer Institute sponsored the development and evaluation of this educational program. In a randomized controlled trial with 170 physicians, nurses, social workers and other palliative care professionals, the program led to highly significant changes in practice behaviors that promote integrative care.

Publication of study results is forthcoming, and will mark this as the first online CE/CME with documented impact on practice behaviors that promote integrative care.

Guest Faculty

Gayle MacDonald, MS, LMT

She is founder of Oncology Massage Education Associates in Portland, OR, and was a founding member of the Society for Oncology Massage, the leading professional association in the field. She created the oncology massage program at Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Sciences University, and has taught in the United States, Scotland, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, and Holland. Her books include Medicine Hands: Massage Therapy for People with Cancer, (Findhorn Press) and Massage for the Hospital Patient and Medically Frail Client (Lippincott Williams and Wilkin).

Course Directors

Leila Kozak, PhD and William Collinge, PhD, MPH, founders of IPCI and principal investigators of the NCI-sponsored research, created the content and developed the collaborations for the Integrative Therapies in Hospice and Palliative Care Program

Leila Kozak, PhD

Director of IPCI

She has led NIH- and VA-funded research and implementation projects on integrative therapies in supportive cancer and palliative care, hospice and geriatrics. A former Whole Health Champion for the VA’s Office of Patient-Centered Care & Cultural Transformation, she has taught integrative care at medical, nursing and psychology schools.

William Collinge, MPH, PhD, LCSW

Associate Director of IPCI

He has led NIH-funded studies on integrative therapies, mental health, palliative care and caregiver education. He has been a scientific review administrator for NIH and the DoD, has clinical background in both integrative oncology and community mental health, and has taught at several universities.

About the CE/CME Opportunity

CE/CME for this course is powered by CMEfy — a seamless way for busy clinician learners to use Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that award credits for Reflective Learning. Instead of quizzes or tests, after each module the learner reflects on “nudges” — brief questions about what you learned and how it applies to your practice.

Credits are available for Physicians (ACCME), Nurses (ANCC), Nurse Practitioners (AANP), Physician Associates (AAPA), Pharmacists (ACPE), and others on the health care team who can use AMA PRA Category 1^TM credits, via the accredited activity portal ReflectCE.

Learn more at CMEfy.

Tuition

$60. The base tuition includes 1 CE/CME credit. Up to 2 additional credits may be added at $10 each for additional reflective learning activity, making a maximum 3 credits available for the course.

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