3D ECHO
Mountain-Pacific Quality Health and Frontier Psychiatry jointly launch 3D ECHO, a telementoring initiative to deliver medical education and health care management to clinicians in remote settings throughout our region.
The newest Project ECHO hub is called 3D ECHO to reflect the importance of supporting the three dimensions of health care: biological, psychological and social.
CURRENT CLINICS
Child Psychiatry Learning Clinic
- Learn how to describe the epidemiology of child psychiatric disorders.
- Discuss the approaches to assessing and diagnosing childhood psychiatric disorders.
- Determine specific best practices to implement in the treatment of childhood psychiatric disorders, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.
- May 4: Anxiety disorders – View the recording | Access the slides
- May 18: ADHD and learning disabilities – View the recording | Access the slides
- June 1: Mood disorders – View the recording | Access the slides
- June 15: Substance use disorders – View the recording | Access the slides
- July 20: Adverse childhood experiences – View the recording | Access the slides
- August 3: Autism spectrum disorders – View the recording | Access the slides
- August 17: Psychotic disorders – View the recording | Access the slides
- September 7: Eating disorders – View the recording | Access the slides
- September 21: Disruptive behavior and aggression – View the recording | Access the slides
- October 5: The Big Picture – View the recording
All webinars in this clinic will start at 1:00 PM MT, 11:00 AM AKT and 9:00 AM HST.
PREVIOUS CLINICS
- May 23: Session 10 – Palliative Care Patients with Dementia – View the recording | Access the slides
- May 9: Session 9 – Advanced Care Planning for Dementia – View the recording | Access the slides
- April 18: Session 8 – Honoring Cultural Connections – View the recording | Access the slides
- April 4: Session 7 – Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia – View the recording | Access the slides
- March 21: Session 6 – Role of Culture in Dementia Care – View the recording | Access the slides
- March 7: Session 5 – Delirium Prevention in Dementia for the Primary Care Provider – View the recording | Access the slides
- February 28: Session 4 – Pharmaceuticals Typically Associated with Dementia Treatment Including Approaches for Behavioral Management – View the recording | Access the slides
- February 7: Session 3 – Early and Accurate Evaluation: From Case Detection to Delivering the Diagnosis – View the recording | Access the slides
- January 24: Session 2 – Dementia Prevention: Modifying Risks – View the recording | Access the slides
- January 10: Session 1 – Diseases Causing Dementia: Masquerading Conditions and Red Flags – View the recording | Access the slides
About Providence Alaska Project ECHO Dementia
Dementia Learning Clinic
This 10-part clinic covers health care issues facing rural and remote communities and will be led by experts in their fields. This clinic is open to primary care clinicians, care managers, and nursing homes. This will be for 10 sessions every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at 12:00 PM MST/MDT.
Participants in this series will:
1. Be updated on the diseases causing dementia from identifying the severity of dementia, different clinical syndromes and possible underlying biology.
2. Understand the workup and diagnosis for cognitive impairment, regardless of patient location.
3. Learn how to approach patients and caregivers with information about their diagnosis and care planning.
4. Learn common behavioral changes seen in dementia and approaches to addressing the underlying drivers.
- October 13: Disease-Causing Dementia | View the recording | Access the slides
- October 27: Signs and Symptoms of Cognitive Impairment and Cognitive Assessment Tools | View the recording | Access the slides
- November 10: Evaluation and Diagnosis in the Primary Care Office or Residential Setting | View the recording | Access the slides
- November 24: Referral and Specialty Testing | View the recording | Access the slides
- December 8: Routine Care Planning | View the recording | Access the slides
- January 12: Communication of Findings to Patients and Caregivers | View the recording | Access the slides
- January 26: Providing Person-Centered Care: Integration of Family and Caregivers | View the recording | Access the slides
- February 9: Care Management: Addressing Role and Needs of Caregivers | View the recording | Access the slides
- February 23: Care Management: Cognition and Comorbidities | View the recording | Access the slides
- March 9: Care Management: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia | View the recording | Access the slides
All webinars in this series will start at 12:00 PM MT, 10:00 AM AKT and 8:00 AM HST.
- June 2: Assessment and Diagnosis of Depression during the Perinatal Period | View the recording | Access the slides
- June 16: Management of Depression during the Perinatal Period | View the recording | Access the slides
- July 7: Assessment and Diagnosis of Anxiety during the Perinatal Period | View the recording | Access the slides
- July 21: Management of Anxiety and Insomnia during the Perinatal Period | View the recording | Access the slides
- August 4: Recognizing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in the Perinatal Period | View the recording | Access the slides
- August 18: Psychiatric Emergencies: Postpartum Psychosis | View the recording | Access the slides
- September 1: Identification and Management of Bipolar Disorder during the Perinatal Period | View the recording | Access the slides
- September 15: Screening and Management of Substance Use Disorders in the Perinatal Period | View the recording | Access the slides
- October 6: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Pregnancy and Postpartum | View the recording | Access the slides
- October 20: Infertility, Perinatal Loss and Women’s Health | View the recording | Access the slides
Substance Use Disorder
- April 7: ECHO Orientation | View the recording | Access the slides
- April 21: Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) | View the recording | Access the slides
- May 5: Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Alcohol Use Disorder | View the recording | Access the slides
- May 19: Engaging Patients about Their Cannabis Use by Discussing Pertinent Research | View the recording | Access the slides
- June 2: Epidemic-Proof: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) | View the recording | Access the slides
- June 16: Treating ADHD in Adults with Co-Occurring SUD | View the recording | Access the slides
- July 7: Kratom | View the recording | Access the slides
- July 21: Benzodiazepine Abuse | View the recording | Access the slides
- August 4: Methamphetamine Abuse | View the recording | Access the slides
- August 18: Substance-induced Psychosis | View the recording | Access the slides
- September 1: Teleconnections in SUDs Treatment | View the recording | Access the slides
Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) helps democratize medical knowledge and develops specialty care capacity in underserved communities. Using a revolutionary model of telementoring, collaborative medical education and care management, Project ECHO empowers front-line primary care professionals to provide the right care, medical education and health care management to clinicians in remote settings. The ECHO model uses experts to lead virtual clinics, which increases the capacity for providers to deliver best-in-practice care to their local communities.
ECHO creates ongoing knowledge networks by linking primary care providers at numerous locations with a team of expert inter-disciplinary specialists, to mentor them to treat their patient cases. These specialist teams use low-cost, multi-point videoconferencing technology to conduct weekly teleECHO clinics with community providers. Specialists serve as mentors, training community providers to provide care in clinical areas that previously were outside their expertise.
Launched in 2003, Project ECHO grew out of one doctor’s vision. Sanjeev Arora, M.D., a social innovator and liver disease specialist at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, was frustrated that he could serve only a fraction of the HCV patients in his state who needed treatment. He wanted to serve as many patients with HCV as possible, so he created a free, virtual clinic and mentored community providers across New Mexico in how to treat the condition.
Today, dozens of teleECHO clinics addressing much more than HCV take place every week—and their reach extends far beyond New Mexico.
Project ECHO currently has over 50 hub sites globally, operating in over 20 states and in more than nine countries for over 40 distinct common complex conditions.
Frontier Psychiatry, PLLC, an all-virtual Montana-based practice, was founded in 2019 by a trio of passionate psychiatrists who are driven to make psychiatric care available to the region’s rural and frontier communities. Frontier Psychiatry is one of the largest psychiatry practices in Montana and offers the following specialty services: addiction medicine, child/adolescent psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and emergency psychiatry. Learn more at www.frontier.care.
If you are interested in receiving more information or you would like to enroll in any or all clinics, please contact Amber Rogers, an account manager with Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, at arogers@mpqhf.org.