The Quality Improvement program under the Division of Adolescent Medicine offers telehealth webinar training session discussing topics related to clinical pediatrics and quality improvement. These pediatric continuing medical education sessions are available to healthcare pediatric physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, clinic managers, nutritionists, medical assistants, and many others. We cover topics with the primary focus on adolescent healthcare with motivational interviewing, pediatric nutrition, and reproductive health.
The Division of Adolescent Medicine has an Adolescent Medicine Rotation that teaches medical students and residents to become skilled clinicians and strong advocates for teens and families. By working to understand how factors related to community, culture, geography, economics, and the health care system impact child health, residents learn how to identify and approach issues that affect children and teens at multiple levels - local, regional, state, national and global.
The Adolescent Medicine Rotation partners with local and national health care physician experts to provide up-to-date health and medical education to clinicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other allied health colleagues. Our collaborative efforts offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) which are available via synchronous and asynchronous e-learning.
The Envision New Mexico Quality Improvement (QI) utilizes the telehealth initiative to connect pediatric sub-specialty providers with community and primary care providers, providing up-to-date information on evidence-based guidelines and support for managing complex pediatric illness along with tools and resources to enhance prevention efforts.
Telehealth sessions include TeleECHO ™ model clinics that include a short didactic presentation and opportunities for case consultation in addition to sessions that offer a short didactic along with a question-and-answer period with the expert presenters.
These sessions and a set of interactive modules are offered through the UNM Health Sciences Center Moodle Online Course system.
We offer a variety of course's including:
For instructions please click here. Continuing medical education is provided at no cost.
The Division of Adolescent Medicine and Envision New Mexico provide training in Motivational Interviewing (MI) to the providers engaged in our initiatives. More than a set of techniques, motivational interviewing is a way of relating, and of approaching what might be considered “difficult” conversations about any subject, including overweight and obesity. MI is also a way of approaching subjects of preventive healthcare and anticipatory guidance in behavioral health.
Respect and autonomy are central to MI. Many pediatric providers in New Mexico have said that employing MI has been of real value to them because it is “much more open culturally and has more room for other perspectives.” Envision New Mexico provides training in MI to healthcare providers and has digitally documented some of their stories of success and “professional transformation” through integrating MI into their practices.