In this CME Outfitters Snack, part of a series on health equity, expert faculty will review EPSDT standards for screening, diagnostic, and treatment services, including required documentation for coverage for children and adolescents. Faculty will integrate evidence-based approaches, including use of age-appropriate developmental and behavioral screening tools within the EPSDT framework to identify and address common pediatric conditions in diverse populations. Learners will be guided to strengthen behavioral health screening, risk assessment, referral, and follow-up for Medicaid-enrolled children and adolescents using culturally sensitive and family-centered strategies.
Wendy L. Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH, FAAP, is the inaugural Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Education and a professor (with tenure) of pediatrics at the University of Utah.
As a general pediatrician, she cares for patients and teaches students and residents at the University of Utah South Main Clinic, whose mission is to increase access to health care for marginalized populations and provide the highest quality of care to patients regardless of their financial ability to pay. She is the Executive Clinical Director, working collaboratively with dentists, physician assistants, midwives, nurse practitioners, family medicine physicians, obstetricians, and pediatricians.
Dr. Hobson-Rohrer graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies with distinction in all subjects. She earned her MD degree at Cornell University Medical College. Following pediatric residency, she worked in the National Public Health Services Corp, during which time she completed an education fellowship and MSPH at the University of Utah. She is a graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program and holds a graduate certificate in conflict resolution and mediation.
This CMEO Snack will highlight strategies to better identify common cultural beliefs and trust-related factors that affect perspectives on illness, healing, home remedies, and use of medication uses. Additionally, expert faculty will discuss culturally responsive communication strategies to address traditional remedies, community influence, and health beliefs alongside evidence-based recommendations when counseling Latine patients on medication and chronic disease.
In this CMEO Snack, expert faculty will discuss the integration of patient-centered communication strategies that incorporate appropriate formality, family engagement, and effective use of interpretation services as well as provide strategies to apply plain-language and medical Spanish communication techniques, including teach-back, to enhance patient understanding during multilingual encounters.
In this CMEO Snack, expert faculty will share strategies on how to better integrate Latine cultural values into pharmacy practice to facilitate trust, enhance shared decision-making (SDM), improve health outcomes for Spanish-speaking patients, and utilize culturally responsive communication techniques in patient counseling to overcome barriers to care.
In this third installment of a CME Outfitters Snack Series, expert faculty will evaluate clinically supported risk stratification tools and clinical indicators to identify hospitalized patients more accurately with SARS-CoV-2 infection who are at increased risk for progression to severe disease.
In this final installment of a CME Outfitters Snack series, expert faculty will guide learners through analysis of regional differences in SARS-CoV-2 variants and their influence on the effectiveness of inpatient COVID-19 treatment strategies.
