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Continuing Education and Credentialing Credits

A number of websites continue to provide continuing education programs suitable for credentialing, offering CEUs or other continuing education credits (CEPTCs, CMEs, etc.).  Although we would be pleased if CEUs were more prevalent online, SW CEUs are not required for credentialing, and some states accept a percentage of non-social work continuing education credits to qualify toward annual licensing requirements.  To the best of our ability, we try to keep this webpage current with available offerings. The following is a list of online and community programs.

Upcoming Conferences & Opportunities

If you have information on an upcoming conference or education opportunity - send to help@stsw.org

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Monday Evening Virtual Sessions
April 7, 14 ,21, 28 | 7:00-9:00 p.m. ET

Session 1: Teaching Bioethics
Monday, April 7, 2025
Moderator: J. Wesley Boyd, M.D., Ph.D.

This session discusses important trends in the teaching of bioethics including: how clinical case studies can be used in innovative ways in the classroom; how ethical theories and frameworks that are learned in the classroom can be applied in clinical settings; and how AI is radically changing biomedical education.

  • Using Case Studies (Anthony C. Breu, M.D.)
  • Using Ethical Theories and Frameworks in the Classroom and in the Clinic (Kelsey N. Berry, Ph.D.)
  • AI in Biomedical Education (Adam Rodman, M.D., M.P.H.)

Session 2: Current Controversies in Transplant Ethics
Monday, April 14, 2025
Moderator: Richard Whyte, M.D.

This session discusses: whether normothermic regional perfusion, which is increasingly being used in donors after circulatory determination of death, violates the dead donor rule and is thereby unethical; considers whether uterine transplantation is ethically acceptable in women with uterine infertility; and analyzes the guidelines for the conduct and oversight of research on brain-dead and recently deceased subjects.

  • Normothermic Regional Perfusion and the Dead Donor Rule (Keren Ladin, Ph.D., M.Sc.)
  • Ethical Considerations in Uterus Transplantation (Louise P. King, M.D., J.D.)
  • Ethics of Brain-Dead Donors as Experimental Xenograft Recipients (Douglas W. Hanto, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.E.)

​​​Session 3: Ethical Challenges in Global Surgery 

Monday, April 21, 2025
Moderator: John E. Mayer Jr., M.D.

The lack of access to surgical care is worst in low- and middle-income countries. This session will consider the ethical considerations that must be taken into account when determining global surgery priorities, how the loss of trained physicians to more wealthy countries can affect efforts to improve surgery in low- and middle-income countries, and whether and under what circumstances is genital cutting or surgery ethically permissible in children.

  • Global Surgery Priorities: Ethical Considerations (Rashi Jhunjhunwala, M.D., M.A.)
  • Local Brain Drain or Global Progress? Exploring the Impact of Outmigration on Surgical Advancements in LMICs (Barnabas Alayande, M.B.B.S., Pg.D.TH., M.B.A.)
  • The Ethics of Child Genital Modification: When is Cutting or Surgery Permissible (Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.)

Session 4: Implementation of AI in Surgery: Ethical Considerations
Monday, April 28, 2025
Moderator: Jonathan Marron, M.D., M.P.H.

This session will consider the ethical challenges of incorporating artificial intelligence in the practice of surgery including: patient privacy, data security, and ownership concerns (legal and ethical); the impact of over-reliance on AI on the art and science of medicine, especially the cognitive training and development of future surgeons; ethical concerns with specific applications that are currently being introduced in patient care.

  • AI and Patient Privacy, Data Security and Ownership (Francis X. Shen, J.D., Ph.D.)
  • Over-Reliance on AI and Loss of the Art of Medicine (Theresa Williamson, M.D., M.P.H.)
  • Reclaiming Voice with AI and Other Applications (Rohaid Ali, M.D.)

Social Work
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston Children’s Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Boston Children’s Hospital maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 8.00 ACE CE continuing education credits.

Organizations Providing Webinars and Courses

The Alliance hosts monthly live webinar programs on the latest cutting-edge and timely topics impacting the donation and transplant community.   Additionally, if you have missed a live webinar, there is a list of on-demand webinars for access to the recordings.

The Alliance website webinar schedule can be found at: https://organdonationalliance.org/education/webinar-series/

UNOS Connect has a comprehensive course catalogue, although at this date there are no social work CEU courses available, only CEPTCs (Continuing Education Points for Transplant Coordinators).  However, some states allow a certain percentage of non-social work CEU courses for social work licensure, so check out the catalogue for good educational material. You will find Webinars, e-learning modules, and other online training resources are available.https://unosconnect.unos.org/ 

The Living Bank offers free webinars in conjunction with the Independent Living Donor Network.  The ILDAN™ is an online community of health professionals who serve in live donor transplant programs throughout the nation. They offer a live webinar each month and make the recording available for on demand viewing following the live broadcast. Attendees may earn one credit of continuing education for each ILDAN™ course completed.  https://www.livingbank.org/webinars/ 

The American Kidney Fund offers periodic webinars.  You may visit their website,  http://www.kidneyfund.org/training/webinars/ for a listing of upcoming webinars.  Interested individuals can also sign up on their website to receive emails: http://www.kidneyfund.org/get-involved/sign-up-email.html.

The National Kidney Foundation offers online CME/CE activities through NKF’s Professional Education Resource Center (PERC), which provides accredited online courses to nephrology professionals including social workers. To browse PERC offerings, go to https://education.kidney.org/course-catalog-list.

To register as an NKF member for free access to PERC, visit www.kidney.org/education.

The American Liver Foundation offers professional development webinars and presentations.

OptumHealth Education offers free on demand ASWB approved Social Work CEUs.  To browse offerings, go to https://www.optumhealtheducation.com/transplantation/group/transplantation.

Additional Resources

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/publications-resources/special-reports-2/what-does-dead-mean/

(Note – this is not a continuing education course.) Marking the fifty-year legacy of a landmark Harvard report on brain death, a new special report published by the Hastings center examines lingering questions about the definition of death, implications for organ transplantation, and lessons from the case of Jahi McMath.

Our website maintains a list of articles on multicultural issues and transplantation.

Check out the Member Content section to find specific practice areas, many of which provide helpful articles, videos, books and resources..

If you are aware of other resources not listed here, please contact help@stsw.org

STSW Contact Hours Toward Credentialing

STSW organ-specific committees offer conference calls, zoom calls, or Webex calls on a regular basis, with substantial transplant or MCS content. STSW offers contact hours specifically to be used toward credentialing, for those members who attend these educational meetings.

A maximum number of these STSW contact hours can be used toward each credentialing application: 8 for the initial application, 3 for MCS and 5 for recertifications. These contact hours are not NASW approved so can only be used toward STSW credentialing, not licensing.  More information is available on our Credentialing Page.

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