Transitioning to Adult Care for Youth with Chronic Health Conditions and Disabilities
This is a short online continuing medical education course designed to educate health providers on ways to better facilitate the continuity of care for youth with chronic health conditions and disabilities who are transitioning from paediatric care to the adult care system.
This course includes 4 lessons:
- Understanding Transition for Youth with CHC/Ds
- Development Trajectory & Implications for Care
- Engaging Youth and Promoting Adherence
- Caring for Youth with Significant Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize barriers to and risks at transition to adult care for youth with chronic health conditions and disabilities (CHC/Ds).
- Identify practical strategies and/or tools to facilitate transition and transfer.
- Identify common concerns of adolescents with disabilities or chronic illness that may be affected by their condition.
- Identify challenges family physicians/primary care providers should anticipate in their young adult patients with CHC/Ds who are transitioning from paediatric to adult health care.
- Identify effective approaches to building rapport with young adult patients with CHC/Ds.
- Identify common barriers to adherence to medical care with patients with CHC/Ds.
- Identify methods for promoting adherence and motivation in adolescent and young adult patients with CHC/Ds.
- Identify key aspects of transition that are unique to the experiences of young adults with cognitive impairment/developmental disabilities and their families and caregivers.
- Identify strategies family physicians/primary care providers can use to integrate young adults with significant developmental and intellectual disabilities into their practice.
- Identify resources for addressing specific issues in transition for youth with significant developmental and intellectual disabilities such as decision-making, communication, adaptive functioning and health and health service utilization.
This project was funded by the Specialist Services Committee, a joint collaborative committee of the BC Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. Continued support is provided by Child Health BC.
The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program (MOC) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by UBC CPD. You may claim a maximum of 1.00 hour (credits are automatically calculated). This one-credit-per-hour Self-Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 1.00 Mainpro+® credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.