Common to Complex: Depression (Project ECHO) - Fall 2024 Cohort

Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 6:30 PM - Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 7:45 PM, Online

Depression is common in children and adolescents; however, identification and treatment can be complex. Our Depression ECHO provides an efficient way to learn and practice, supported by psychiatry, psychology, and primary care provider peers. The goal is to improve the primary care provider's comfort when managing treatment of depression and provide a network of resources to ensure patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

Session Topics:

• Addressing New Onset Depression
• Assessing Primary Care Safety Concerns
• Evidence-Based Interventions
• Introducing Brief Office Interventions
• Initiating 1st Line Medication
• Ongoing Medical Monitoring (the follow-up visit)
• Coordinating Collaborative Care
• Wrap Up and Review

 

How to Participate?

• The next cohort is scheduled to begin October 22, 2024. Registration will open Fall 2024.
• Participate via video-conference
• Eight - 75 minute sessions, held on Tuesdays
• We will use a web-based video platform (Zoom) to conduct sessions. There is no cost to participants for this platform.
• Cohorts will be limited to approximately 25 participants.
• Participants must be able to participate in at least 80% of sessions and submit at least 1 case.

Session dates: 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3, 12/10

 

Why should I participate?
Primary Care Providers (PCP) can access pediatric specialists for professional collaboration through regular teleECHO sessions, which are like an interactive grand round presentation. During a session, the specialist will present a brief didactic. PCPs present cases to the "learning network," which includes the specialist team and other participants, to receive feedback.

Benefits for Participating Clinicians:

• Participate from the convenience of your office or home
• Face-to-face networking and collaboration with colleagues
• Sessions led by sub-specialist
• Receive expert opinions on cases

 

Featured Faculty:

Cara Fosdick, MD - Dr. Fosdick is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at CCHMC. She is board certified in adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. She is an outpatient clinical psychiatrist within the Neurobehavioral Continuum, primarily serving children, adolescents, and young adults with developmental disabilities.

Amanda Zengel, LMHC - is a licensed mental health counselor who provides integrative behavioral health services at Cincinnati Children’s owned pediatrician’s office, Children’s Health Care. Amanda has been licensed as a professional counselor since 2016 and has been employed with Cincinnati Children’s since 2020.

 

What is “Common to Complex”?
“From Common to Complex: Utilizing Telehealth to Connect Primary Care Providers to Pediatric Specialists” is a project looking at using technology and case-based learning to improve knowledge, self-efficacy, and patient care. Cincinnati Children’s uses the Project ECHO methodology to offer telehealth-based learning for primary care providers, especially in rural or underserved areas.

How Project ECHO Works Project ECHO – Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes – bridges the gap between healthcare specialists and community-based clinicians. The model is based on four principles:

• Use technology to leverage scarce resources
• Share “best practices” to reduce disparities
• Apply case-based learning to master complexity
• Evaluate and monitor outcomes

 

During Project ECHO sessions, healthcare clinicians present cases using a case-based format via video conferencing. Project ECHO specialists and participants discuss patient cases, and recommendations are made regarding a treatment plan.

What Clinicians and Partners say about Project ECHO:

• “I feel more confident, and it makes providing care easier. This project allows for increased opportunities to learn, and patients to get better care.”
• “Project ECHO connects me to a research community. The teleECHO clinics are the highlight of the week. Professional learning opportunities have expanded."

 

Information about Project ECHO
Project ECHO Overview Video
Project ECHO Infographic

 

 

 

1. Screen for pediatric health concerns
2. Utilize best evidence/treatment algorithms to identify treatment options
3. Describe the referral pathway of pediatric diagnoses if not treatable in the community setting
4. Discuss roles/responsibilities for the healthcare team when treating and referring
5. Communicate with the healthcare team

In support of improving patient care, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

CME: Cincinnati Children’s designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ per session. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CNE: This activity is approved for a maximum 1.25 continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hours per session. *Some sessions - This CE activity is designed for the additional hours required for APRNs with prescriptive authority in Ohio.*

APB MOC Part 2: Successful completion of this CME activity enables the participant to earn 1.25 MOC Part 2 points per session in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

 

 

For More Information about Common to Complex:
Center for Telehealth
513-803-8353
[email protected]

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.25 hours), ABP MOC Part 2 (1.25 hours), CME - Non-Physician (Attendance) (1.25 hours), General Attendance (1.25 hours), Nursing CE (1.25 hours)

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

No faculty are available for this activity at this time.