This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nursing professionals, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, rehabilitation specialists, dietitians, researchers, advocates, and other members of the healthcare team involved in the management of patients with MS.
Learning Objectives
Compare MS models of care in order to support the provision of team-based, comprehensive care via the most appropriate model for a given practice setting that appropriately incorporates roles and responsibilities of clinicians and ensures the delivery of evidence-based MS care.
Summarize methods to monitor treatment outcomes including patient self-report, automated self-assessment, data from wearable devices, clinician reported outcomes, imaging, and biomarkers in order to optimize their utilization in clinical practice and research.
Identify assessment techniques to isolate those factors that affect the complex pathology of MS and related neuroimmune disorders and differentiate between these disease processes and their manifestations and course.
Analyze common symptoms of MS and related disorders and their appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions in order to develop strategies designed to maximize function and quality of life.
Course Content
DISCO and Beyond DISCO with a Pharmacists’ Twist
Disease Modifying Therapy Discontinuation in MS: DISCOMS and other Controlled Trials
