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Nutrition and Chronic Disease is an online module that provides 4.25 hours of evidence-based Inter-Professional Educational (IPE) content for health profession students and healthcare professionals. Participants will learn how nutrition in the U.S. and Mississippi may be both a contributor and solution to chronic disease. This self-paced module includes video scenarios with various healthcare professionals, PowerPoint presentations with voiceovers, case studies, pretest and posttest assessments, and other resources. Participants will examine the complex relationships between nutrition and three important conditions: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity. Topics include pathophysiology of these conditions, diagnostic testing, nutrition recommendations for disease management, evidence-based meal plans, food related social determinants of health, and the socio-ecological model of nutrition. Upon completion of the course, participants will have improved knowledge of nutrition interventions for chronic disease, team-based approaches, and socioeconomic factors affecting diet-related chronic disease.
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This one-hour online module examines real world stories of patients who have been served at the Jackson Free Clinic and the gaps in health coverage that left these patients uninsured and seeking help from a free clinic. The course will illustrate how the United States developed a complicated and convoluted “system” of coverage that is difficult to maneuver within and which results in many people “falling through the cracks.” Students will gain a better understanding of the various types of health insurance available, including private employer-based coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, the Health Insurance Marketplace, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Upon completion of the course, students will be better able to converse intelligently with administrative staff and social workers who work with health insurance and public programs on a regular basis. They will also be better equipped to understand the nuances of important policy issues being debated at the state and federal level, as well as in local and state medical associations, that affect their patients.
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This online module includes “real life” video scenarios with entertaining narratives, interactive Q&A, interviews with health care professionals, and short PowerPoint™ slide decks to provide 3 to 4 hours of evidence-based Inter-Professional (IPE) content for health professions students. Students will learn why human milk is critical for infant, maternal, and public health, and how professionals can use a multi-disciplinary approach to support breastfeeding in clinical and community settings. Topics include the human milk microbiome, the impact of sociodemographic factors on breastfeeding rates, and the promotion of breastfeeding as best practice in the hospital and workplace. On completion of the course, the student will have improved knowledge of the bioscience of breastfeeding and a solid knowledge of how health-related professionals can work together to improve patient outcomes, protect breastfeeding, and ensure equitable access to this vital “human medicine.”
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Physicians – This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Bower Foundation, Inspire Health, and CHAMPS (Communities Hospitals Advancing Maternity Practices. The University of Mississippi Medical Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Mississippi School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.
Nurses – The University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by The Mississippi Nurses Foundation, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
As an approved provider, the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing awards this activity 3.5 contact hour(s).
CEUs – This activity is approved by the University of Mississippi Medical Center Division of Continuing Health Professional Education for a maximum of 3.5 hours (0.35CEUs) continuing education units.
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