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