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HPM PASS 3rd Edition

Assess your understanding of hospice and palliative medicine with this online practice test which is also designed to simulate the board certification exam. It includes 136 test questions to evaluate your knowledge and uncover areas where additional study may be helpful.

The HPM PASS 3rd Edition originally released July 8, 2016 expired on July 8, 2019. The product was reviewed edited by July 5, 2019 to ensure the content is accurate. CME/MOC expiration dates are extended through July 5, 2022 and may only be claimed one time.

If you are repurchasing this product and already claimed CME credits and MOC points, you cannot claim those points again. Please check your purchase history in your account if unsure of previous purchase.

AAHPM designates this enduring material for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Product Details

Activity Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:

Assess patient pain, other symptoms, and side effects and recommend a care plan based on the best available evidence.
Identify psychological and psychiatric aspects of patient care including, grief and bereavement.
Assess the spiritual, existential, social, and cultural dimensions of patients and recommend care plans.
Analyze communication techniques used among the interdisciplinary care team, families and patients in palliative care.
Address legal and ethical concerns related to palliative care.

Please note: This item is linked to the individual purchaser’s unique customer number and does not allow for multiple purchases. CME credits and MOC points are only available for purchasers of this product. If you are purchasing this product for someone else, the order must be placed under the intended user’s name.

Purchases can only be made online for this product. AAHPM cannot accept payment via mail.

There are no refunds for online products.

Accessing this Product

Upon purchase of this product, follow these steps to access it:

Log in to AAHPM.org in the upper right hand corner.
After you are logged in, click My Account in the upper right hand corner.
Select My Classroom in the left column.

Here you will see all of your electronic purchases. Click the product's symbol to download or access the product.

If you need assistance, please call 847.375.4712 or email info@aahpm.org.

Disclosures

AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards’ for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.* Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, they were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.

All editors, authors, reviewers and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with the following exceptions: Beth Popp serves on PRA Health’s Safety Monitoring Committee for Clinical Trials and receives an honorarium. Robert Taylor serves on the speaker’s bureau of HospiScript and receives an honorarium.

*A commercial interest is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. (Exclusions at the time of this writing included 501-C not-for-profit organizations, government organizations, liability and health insurance providers, non-healthcare-related companies, group medical practices, for-profit hospitals, for-profit rehabilitation centers, for-profit nursing homes, blood banks and diagnostic laboratories.)

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) designates this Enduring material for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CME credits expire on July 5, 2022.

Maintenance of Certification (MOC)

“Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

9 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
9 MOC points 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 ABIM or ABP MOC credit.”

ABIM or ABP MOC points expire on July 5, 2022.

To earn CME credits or MOC points, a passing score of 70% is required.

NOTE: Physicians - please view annual MOC deadlines.

ABMS MOC Approval Statement

Through the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) ongoing commitment to increase access to practice relevant Continuing Certification Activities through the ABMS Continuing Certification Directory, HPM PASS, 3rd Edition has met the requirements as an MOC Part II CME Activity (apply toward general CME requirement) and/or an MOC Part II Self-Assessment Activity for the following ABMS Member Boards:

MOC Part II Self-Assessment
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

MOC Part II CME Activity
American Board of Family Medicine
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
American Board of Radiology

Note: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement (only). Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.

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Product Reviews

3.6 out of 5 ( 17 Reviews)

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Poorly worded, gotcha questions

Thomas McNalley, MD, MA Dec 29, 2020 Report Abuse

This was an expensive and demoralizing exercise. Many of the questions are confusing or arcane. It’s not clear how well this content maps onto the actual boards. (Publishing data correlating the HPM pass exam scores to actual board scores would be potentially illuminating.) I did not find this particularly helpful in my board preparation.

Good but could be a bit better

Karl Benedict Bezak, MD Dec 27, 2020 Report Abuse

Enjoyed the comprehensive nature of the questions and explanations however they were not quite like the exam questions that I encountered on the test which were shorter and more expansive in terms of topics And ideas. Would try to reflect a bit more accurately the format of the exam.

Room for improvement

Roma Tickoo, MD,MPH Oct 5, 2020 Report Abuse

1. Please remove negatively phrased questions as that pattern is not recommended even in USMLE 1 and 2. 2. In one of the pain management modules the q is about a patient on Hydromorphone PCA of 50mg per hour and the bolus of 80 mg. Even if hypothetically stated - just throws one-off. 3. I paid for the whole package - but unable to access the recording for the board review and HPM Pass sections as it keeps saying that its unsafe. 4. I liked the study mode vs test-taking mode. However, one ends up reviewing the same question twice by default. It would be helpful to change the question around a little bit. 5. Please consider the ability to highlight when the user is reviewing the answers.

Poor articulation and ambiguous nature of questions and answers

Naresh Pathak, MD, FACP, FAAHPM Jul 19, 2020 Report Abuse

So many questions are incorrect or have multiple answers. The explanations given are invalid in justifying their answers. Many answers have no relationship to (or understanding of) real-life settings.

HPM PASS

Robert Brouillard, MD,HMDC Jul 6, 2020 Report Abuse

Excellent way to expose my weakness. Very valuable.

Unclear how to access the product

Kevin Henning, MD, CMD, FAAFP, FAAHPM May 31, 2020 Report Abuse

I just bought HPM Pass, but I cannot find a link to use the product and take the test questions. Buyers should receive clear instructions on how to access the product.

Can’t access

Leigh Vaughan, MD,FAAHPM Mar 28, 2020 Report Abuse

Pleas help me access it now that I have purchased it.

HPM PASS 3rd Edition

Jonathan R Nasseri, MD Feb 5, 2020 Report Abuse

Many typos. Some questions don't even have all the options that are present in the answer critique. For example, one question had option E as the correct answer, but option E was not even one of the options. When I reported this to AAHPM, no one responded back. Some questions are written poorly with more than one possible answer. Overall, not as impressed as compared to some other products and previous edition.

I disagreed with several questions

Bruce Harrow, MD, MSPh May 28, 2019 Report Abuse

As above with no mechanism that I could find for feedback.

Steven M Rayle, MD May 6, 2019 Report Abuse

Used as a review for the HMD Board exam, and found the teaching points to be more esoteric than fundamental.

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