Blended Learning

PREP IS NOW OFFERING ON LINE LEARNING!!
PREP is making it easier for full time professionals to join our community.  With the program’s transition to a blended learning environment you can participate in on line learning for a significant portion of the course.  You will still have access to expert faculty, comprehensive course content and cutting edge research within the convenience your home or office.  And, you will probably learn more--research shows a combination of face-to-face and on-line education maximizes learning.  PREP offers at least one blended learning course each fall, spring and summer semester; additional blended courses are being developed. Learn more about PREP's blended learning trajectoryRegister here for a course.

May 31 - June 2

Ethical and Sociocultural Aspects of Pain

June 2 - 3 

Interprofessional Team Management of Pain

July 13 - 14

Medical Acupuncture

Next offered summer 2015- offered odd years, summer only!

This course will present theory and research concerning factors (cultural, social, psychological, political, ethical and economic) related to pain assessment, treatment, receptivity to treatment and treatment outcomes. An epidemiologic overview of pain, as well as clinical, societal and institutional policies to alleviate it, are addressed. The patient/clinician relationship and the many factors that influence it are emphasized.

Today’s health care is increasingly delivered by groups of health care providers with diverse professional training, roles and identities. Lack of coordination and communication between health professionals frequently leads to suboptimal or adverse patient outcomes and lower patient satisfaction, carries risk management challenges, and provokes provider dissatisfaction and burnout. This course provides tools to analyze and if needed repair group dynamics within interprofessional teams such as the medical home. Attendees will acquire knowledge and skills for achieving real-world outcomes crucial to patient-centered care, with an emphasis upon pain and its treatment.

 

 

This course explores current scientific inquiry devoted to uncovering a western-oriented explanation for the analgesic effects of acupuncture and the clinical applications of this provocative work.  An impressive body of research demonstrates acupuncture’s ability to predictably stimulate neuroendocrine responses in humans, even in the absence of a clear correlation between acupuncture points and major neurovascular pathways, with the most convincing findings in the area of pain physiology.

Course Director
Pam Ressler, MS, RN, HN-BC

 

Course Co-Directors
Sharan L. Schwartzberg, EdD OTR/L, FAOTA, CGP
Daniel B. Carr, MD, FABPM, FFPMANZCA (Hon.)

 

Course Director
Richard Glickman-Simon, MD

 

Onsite Sessions

Fri, May 31 - 6:00-9:00 pm

Sat, June 1 - 9:00 am-6:00 pm

Sun, June 2 - 9:00 am-3:00 pm

 

+ 5 On-line Sessions

Synchronous Videoconferencing

Wed, June 5 - 7pm-9pm

Wed, June 12 - 7pm-9pm

Mon, June 17 - 7pm-9pm

Mon June 24 - 7pm-9pm

Wed, June 26 - 7pm-9pm

 

Onsite Sessions

Sun, June 2 - 4:00 pm-7:00 pm

Mon, June 3 - 9:00 am-5:00 PM

 

 

+ 4 Online sessions

Synchronous Videoconferencing

Tues, June 11 - 5:30pm-7:30pm

Tues, June 18 - 5:30pm-7:30pm

Tues, June 25 - 5:30pm-7:30pm

Tues, July 2 - 5:30pm-7:30pm

 

Onsite Sessions

Sat, July 13 - 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Sun, July 14 - 8:30 am-12:30 pm

 

 

+ 1 Online session

Wed, August 7 – 5pm-8pm