Motivational Interviewing Workshop - October 28, 2026

Port Matilda, PA US
October 28, 2026

This is an in-person educational activity. This continuing education activity is designed to equip physicians and advance practitioners with the communication skills and strategies – specifically, motivational interviewing and shared decision-making skills – that are important in working with patients when the objective is to try to catalyze some health-related behavior change in those patients. A salient example (and one that will be a focus of this activity) is vaccine hesitancy or reluctance on the part of adults as well as the parents of minors. Given the growth of the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy within our own patient populations, learners should attend this session to optimize their efficacy in aligning patient behaviors with their own best interests, as well as the interests of public health.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists in outpatient/community practice, including pediatrics. Other learner groups such as any other learner that utilizes motivational interviewing during their clinical practice would also benefit from this education. 

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • Identify specific motivational interviewing and shared decision-making skills and techniques useful in communicating with patients about health-related behavior change 
  • Effectively utilize specific motivational interviewing and shared decision-making skills in simulated encounters with standardized patients
Course Cancellation Policy
In the unusual circumstance that this course is cancelled, you will be called and/or emailed, and any tuition fees received would be refunded in full.  Geisinger is not responsible for any airfare, hotel or other costs incurred.
 
Attendance
Attendance will be recorded within three to four days of the conclusion of the activity.  Credit will display on your continuing education transcript once the activity evaluation is completed.  

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 3.50 ACPE
  • 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.50 ANCC
  • 3.50 Participation Credit
Course opens: 
08/31/2026
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Event starts: 
10/28/2026 - 9:00am EDT
Event ends: 
10/28/2026 - 1:00pm EDT
Part of: 
Motivational Interviewing, Shared Decision Making, and Behavior Change
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Healthcare and Interprofessional Communication Program
Motivational Interviewing Workshop
1 hour
Didactic Presentation
Samantha Norton, MFA
15 minutes
Transition to Breakout Rooms
1 hour
Adult Vaccine Hesitancy 
HICP Faculty
Shortness of Breath
HICP Faculty
15 minutes
Transition to Breakout Rooms
1 hour
Shortness of Breath
HICP Faculty
Adult Vaccine Hesitancy
HICP Faculty
30 minutes
Debrief
Samantha Norton, MFA
Samantha Lee, EdD
Dan Davis, PhD
Geisinger Healthplex State College (Gray's Woods)
132 Abigail Lane
Port Matilda, PA 16870
United States

Geisinger Faculty

Dan Davis, PhD, HEC-C
Activity Director and Speaker
Associate Chief Clinical Ethics
Director, Healthcare & Interprofessional Communication Program (HICP)
 
Sierra Hawthorne, MPH
Activity Planner
VP Population Health
 
Michelle Holt, MS
Activity Planner
AVP Community Medicine
 
Samantha Lee, EdD
Activity Planner and Speaker
Assistant Director, Healthcare & Interprofessional Communication Program (HICP)
 
Carol Moore, RN
Activity Planner
Nursing Instructor, Nursing Student Education
 
Samantha Norton, MFA
Activity Planner and Speaker
Senior Education Specialist, Healthcare & Interprofessional Communication Program (HICP)
 
Cybele Pacheco, MD
Activity Planner
Director, 65 Forwards Reedsville
Physician, Community Medicine
 
Angela Slampak-Cindric, PharmD
Activity Planner
Pharmacy Coordinator, Pharmacy Inpatient GMC
 
Brian Voelcker, MFA
Activity Planner and Speaker
Senior Education Specialist, Healthcare & Interprofessional Communication Program (HICP)
 

Content Disclosure

The faculty has attested that their presentations and/or content are HIPAA compliant.  
 
Individuals in a position to control educational content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. 
 
CE Committee Members/Content Reviewer(s) have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests. 
Kelly Ryan Shaw, PsyD
 
*Any/All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.  

Accreditation 

In support of improving patient care, Geisinger College of Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

 

 

Credit Designation 

Geisinger College of Health Sciences designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity. 

Geisinger College of Health Sciences designates this live activity for 3.5 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity. 

This live activity is approved for 3.5 contact hours (0.35 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit JA0008072-0000-26-pending. 

Disclosure Policy 

Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing education activity sponsored by Geisinger College of Health Sciences must disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s). 

Commercial Support

None

Available Credit

  • 3.50 ACPE
  • 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.50 ANCC
  • 3.50 Participation Credit
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