Educating Physicians on Controversies & Challenges in Health

Educating Physicians on Controversies and Challenges in Health is a series of brief informational Web streaming programs—developed by the AMA—targeting primary care physicians. The objective of these programs is to inform physicians about the challenges and controversies at the interface of clinical medicine and public health and to offer possible strategies to address these issues in their practices.

Each five to ten-minute program is presented in video format with an on-camera narrator, a slide presentation on emerging controversial health care issues and footage to illustrate the issue. The programs are presented in an unbiased format and are designed to initiate candid discussion among physicians.

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Motivating Patients to Change Behavior  

This episode will introduce physicians to motivational interviewing and how it can help change or improve patient health behavior. Motivational interviewing is a patient-centered, goal-oriented counseling strategy. At the end of this program, the viewer should be able to:

• Define motivational interviewing and explain the basic principles of this strategy.
• Identify how motivational interviewing differs from traditional patient-physician interactions.

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