Description: 

Pediatric medicine is a rapidly evolving field. In light of this there will often be a gap between physicians’ current knowledge on how to handle difficult cases and thus it will impact their competence and may adversely affect patient outcome. The goal of this pediatric Morbidity & Mortality conference is to close the gap between physicians' current knowledge with discussion of current pediatric conditions and treatments to generate discussions about how to manage patients and diseases so all physicians and healthcare professionals caring for the children in Sutter Children's Center have the most updated knowledge.

Target Audience: 

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Physicians (MD)

Physician Assistant (PA)

Students of Health Professions

Learning Objectives: 

Upon completion of this learning activity, participants should be able to:

1. Utilize evidence-based medicine to identify care and treatment options for optimal treatment of complex and unusual pediatric illness patients.

2. Demonstrate Cultural Humility in interactions with families of diverse cultures and belief systems and how they perceived health and illness and responded to various diseases, symptoms and treatments.

3. Identify and proactively address social determinants of health that increase risk of poor pediatric health outcomes.

4. Evaluate the relationships between multifactorial contributors to poor pediatric outcomes so as to apply such learnings to future complex cases.

Providing Culturally Appropriate Care which is Free of Implicit Biases (AB 1195 & 241):

Learners are strongly encouraged to engage in self-directed learning related to the impact of implicit biases in this clinical area via the references provided below:

SDOH

• Perez-Kersey, P., Chan, T., & Tjoeng, Y. (2023). Social determinants of health and health equity in pediatric cardiology outcomes. Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics; 9: 284-301. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40746-023-00286-x
• Amdani, S., Bhimani, S., Boyle, G., Liu, W., Worley, S., Saarel, E. & Hsich, E. (2021). Racial and ethnic disparities persist in the current era of pediatric heart transplantation. Journal of cardiac failure; 27(9): 957-964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.05.027

Implicit Bias

• Schnierle, J., Christian-Brathwaite, N., & Louisias, M. (2019). Implicit bias: What every pediatrician should know about the effect of bias on health and future directions. Current Problems In Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care; 49(2): 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cppeds.2019.01.003
• Tervalon, M. & Murray-Garcia, J. (1998). Cultural humility versus cultural competence: A critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; 9(2): 117-125. doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2010.0233

Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest

No one involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any 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. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.   

– Provider Designee/Verification: Kerri Maya, MSL, RN