Primary Care Provider Continuing Medical Education
Your Patient with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability: Accessibility, Decision-Making, and Consent
A Continuing Medical Education course presented by the University of Arizona Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities, Northern Arizona University, and the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council.
The "Your Patient with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability: Accessibility, Decision-Making, and Consent" Continuing Medical Education (CME) is aimed at providing primary care providers, particularly family physicians and nurse practitioners in Arizona, with continuing medical education related to more equitable and inclusive health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
- Cost: $75*
- Fully online and self-guided
- 3-credits
- Can be completed in 3 hours
*University staff, faculty, and DCCs can log-in with their UA NetID at the top of the registration page, and apply their account balance toward the cost, allowing them to take the course without paying out of pocket. (When UA NetID accounts accounts are established, they contain $250 of CME credit.)
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About the Project
The Primary Care Provider Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program is aimed at providing primary care providers, particularly family physicians and nurse practitioners in Arizona, with continuing medical education related to more equitable and inclusive health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
Why is this project important?
Through previous research, Drs. Armin and Williamson learned that health care providers are not always aware of best practices for working with individuals with IDD in health care interactions. National research has also found that primary care providers hold biases about people with disabilities and need more information and support in providing more comprehensive and equitable care for their patients who have disabilities. More importantly, the project is expected to help people with disabilities feel more seen and heard by their primary care provider.
"These videos would be great for doctors and medical students to watch. If they watch the videos closely, they could learn how to work with people with disabilities. I think others might be able to learn something from videos like this too."
-Gabe Martinez, Program Aide and Peer Mentor, Sonoran Center
About the Continuing Medical Education Program
With insight and guidance from a diverse group of community partners that includes self-advocates, subject matter experts in supported decision-making, guardianship, health care for underserved communities, the project team has developed a Continuing Medical Education program with three modules that focus on different aspects of providing medical care for people with disabilities. The three topics covered by the CME program are:
- Understanding Current Health Inequities among People with I/DD and the History of Marginalization
- Consent and Capacity as it Relates to People with I/DD
- Applying Supported Decision-Making in the Clinical Context
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Continuing Medical Education Toolkit
The Continuing Medical Education Toolkit was developed to provide others with information and lessons learned so that they can create similar CME courses and understand our CME development process. We encourage others to review the recommended step-by-step process based on the development of a CME course that focused on best practices for providing equitable and quality medical care for individuals with disabilities.
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Project Steering Committee
Bill Thrift, MD, FAAFP, President, Board of Arizona Academy of Family Physicians
Jon Meyers, Executive Director, The Arc of Arizona
Susan Marks, JD, PhD, Attorney at Law, Susan Marks & Associates, PLLC; Professor Emeritus, Northern Arizona University
Kim Russell, Executive Director, Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care
Lorena Verdugo, President, Arizona Community Health Workers Association
Audrey Russell Kibble, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP
Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, Mel & Enid College of Public Health, University of Arizona
John Britton and Teresa Moore, Self Advocates
Vicki D. Copeland, MD, FAAFP, Medical Director, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan
Thank You to Our CME Actors!
Monica Diaz
Gabriel Martinez
Katie Baldwin
Kim Rogan
