Optimizing Motivational Interviewing Across Cultures for Busy Clinicians and Educators Workshop

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Refine your motivational interviewing skills and strengthen cross-cultural communication with CSAM’s Optimizing Motivational Interviewing Across Cultures Workshop!
Register for just $200 (normally $385) through December 31st — and earn 3.0 AMA Category 1 Credits.

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Learn or refine your clinical and teaching skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI) adapting principles and techniques across diverse cultures. This workshop provides tools to engage our patients/clients who have unhealthy alcohol and drug use, as well as other lifestyle changes to promote behavior change commonly addressed in primary care and other specialties. Strategies will be developed through mentored learning in breakout groups with clinical skills acquisition and practice. All participants will develop continuing learning plans to increase their MI proficiency.

Speaker(s):

  • Ken Saffier, MD, FASAM  -  MERF Board member, Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine

 

 

Learning Objectives

  • Describe similarities and differences between trauma and race-based trauma.
  • Describe some of the ways CAMI is distinguishable from MI.
  • Demonstrate ways to amplify affirmation using CAMI to reverse the effects of stigma.
 
 
    Course summary
    Available credit: 
    • 3.00 AMA Category 1
    • 3.00 Attendance
    Course opens: 
    11/01/2025
    Course expires: 
    10/02/2026
    Cost:
    $200.00

     

    • Ken Saffier, MD, FASAM  -  MERF Board member, Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine

    PHYSICIANS: The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) is accredited by the California Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  CSAM takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

    CSAM designates this educational activity/enduring material for a maximum of 3 AMA/PRA Category 1 Credits™. (Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.) This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

    NON-PHYSICIANS: The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) provides a certificate of attendance for this online course based upon the number of hours you participated, up to maximum of 3. 

    DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

    In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, CSAM adheres to guidelines and processes to identify and mitigate relevant financial relationships for all individuals in a position to control the content of this activity. Unless otherwise noted, faculty did not have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies, as defined by ACCME, within the past 24 months. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

    Available Credit

    • 3.00 AMA Category 1
    • 3.00 Attendance

    Price

    Cost:
    $200.00
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