Patient Home Visits - Community Bus Rounds

Taking place in a mobile classroom, participants of the Community Bus Rounds will have the opportunity to observe the delivery of supportive medical care with some of the world’s leading palliative care professionals at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Traveling to various locations throughout the Houston community, Community Bus Rounds introduces medical providers to some of the devastating challenges patients and their families face toward the end of life.  Through this patient-centered approach, we aim to identify these barriers and discuss methods of care for the patient with the common goal of how each patient can live as well as possible, for as long as possible. 

Target Audience

This highly interactive and experiential education course targets physicians, nurses, residents, fellows, social workers, chaplains, and other healthcare providers both, inside and outside of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, who have a common interest in palliative, hospice, and supportive care.

This program is for anyone interested in Palliative Care or hospice work. We welcome all students, researchers, health care professionals, those interested in exploring careers in Hospice or Palliative Care, and the general public to participate in this educational program.

Educational Objectives

After attending the program, the participant should be able to:

• Identify and manage the complex medical, ethical, spiritual, and psychosocial issues that patients face near the end of life.
• Demonstrate an increased understanding and sharing of best practices in palliative care within a patient-care setting.
• Discuss and manage difficult issues with an interdisciplinary team committed to improving the quality of healthcare delivery
• Model and demonstrate effective ways of communicating with patients and caregivers that will lead to improved patient and family care
  
• Provide and administer an improved-upon psychosocial and spiritual care model that is administered to patients and families during this stage of their illness.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 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.

Credit Designation
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity and will award 4.00 Nursing Contact Hour(s).

The University of Texas MD Anderson (CEU Provider #4607) is an approved continuing education provider for Social Workers through the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners. This activity has been approved for continuing education units.

Registration

$35.00  Registration Fee

Rounds are scheduled monthly, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

Upcoming dates:  

• September 25, 2024
• October 30, 2024
• November 13, 2024
• January 15, 2025
• February 12, 2025
• March 12, 2025
• April 9, 2025
• May 14, 2025
• June 11, 2025        

Space is limited, so please register early by completing the registration form (pdf) or completing the electronic registration link and submitting it with payment according to instructions on the form.  The bus will depart from the Pickens Academic Tower, 1400 Pressler, Houston, TX 77030 at 8 a.m. sharp on each scheduled day; plan on arriving at the hospital no later than 7:30 a.m.  Check-in on the 1st-floor lobby of the Pickens Academic Tower.

Continuing Medical Education hours are offered to Community Bus Rounds - Patient Home Visits participants.