Schwartz Center Rounds

The Schwartz Center Rounds is a special section related to care of specific patients. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and sustenance to the healing process. Sponsored by the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Schwartz Center Rounds is a monthly multidisciplinary forum where caregivers reflect on important psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and their caregivers, and gain insight and support from fellow staff members.

Note that these CME modules are approved for specific CME credit in risk management*, a requirement of licensure in some states.

*Risk is inherent in the management of patients with serious illness. It is important that physicians eliminate avoidable risk and minimize other risk by anticipating problems in their patient and practice management. Indeed, CME dedicated to risk management, as a part of practice quality improvement, is required by some state licensing boards. The Editors of The Oncologist recognize the importance of risk management in quality practice and patient care. For this reason, The Oncologist offers CME in risk management for practicing physicians. Approval for risk management is indicated in an article's course description page.

Schwartz Center Rounds courses include:

• Lost in Translation: Integrating Medical Interpreters into the Multidisciplinary Team
• Hope EXPIRED
• Communicating Genetic Risk: Pros, Cons, and Counsel EXPIRED
• Teams: Communication in Multidisciplinary Care EXPIRED
• Laughter: The Best Medicine? EXPIRED
• Learning to Cope: How Far Is Too Close? EXPIRED
• A Staff Dialogue on Do Not Resuscitate Orders: Psychosocial Issues Faced by Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers EXPIRED
• Fear of Death EXPIRED
• Cancer as Metaphor EXPIRED
• Too Old to Care? EXPIRED
• Help Me Help You: Support Groups in Cancer Therapy EXPIRED
• Breaking Bad News: A Patient’s Perspective EXPIRED
• Hope for the Homeless EXPIRED
• Trust Violated: Analgesics for Addicts EXPIRED
• Living as a Cancer Surpriser: A Doctor Tells His Story EXPIRED
• When Does the Responsibility of Our Care End: Bereavement EXPIRED
• Sexuality and Cancer: Conversation Comfort Zone EXPIRED
• Sedation for Intractable Distress of a Dying Patient: Acute Palliative Care and the Principle of Double Effect EXPIRED
• Reality Testing in Cancer Treatment: The Phase I Trial of Endostatin EXPIRED
• Race, Ethnicity, and the Patient-Caregiver Relationship EXPIRED
• Medical Mistakes: A Workshop on Personal Perspectives EXPIRED
• Losing God EXPIRED
• Faith, Identity, and Leukemia: When Blood Products are Not an Option EXPIRED
• Complementary, Alternative, Integrative, or Unconventional Medicine? EXPIRED
• Caring for Colleagues EXPIRED
• Burnout: Caring for the Caregivers EXPIRED
• Between Parent and Child: Negotiating Cancer Treatment in Adolescents EXPIRED
• A Staff Dialogue on Phase I Trials: Psychosocial Issues Faced by Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers EXPIRED
• A Staff Dialogue on Caring for an Intensely Spiritual Patient: Psychosocial Issues Faced By Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers EXPIRED
• A Staff Dialogue on Caring for a Cancer Patient Who Commits Suicide: Psychosocial Issues Faced by Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers EXPIRED
• A Staff Dialogue on a Socially Distanced Patient: Psychosocial Issues Faced by Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers EXPIRED
• A Staff Dialogue on Aggressive Palliative Treatment Demanded by a Terminally Ill Patient: Psychosocial Issues Faced by Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers EXPIRED