We gratefully acknowledge the invaluable contributions of our faculty content developer, Carla Marienfeld, MD, in crafting this educational material.

Target Audience: This activity is designed to improve the competence, performance, and patient outcomes of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals. Learners will determine individual practice gaps and address them through a performance improvement plan. Learners will assess and evaluate Motivational Interviewing (MI) performance techniques used in their practices.

Our goal: The overall objective of this activity is to guide you through the process of self-evaluation using evidence-based clinical quality measures. Once practices are implemented as an everyday clinical function, it is expected that you will have achieved performance change in your practice setting.  

Educational objectives of this activity: At the conclusion of this activity, clinicians will be able to:

• Display a greater level of competence using a Motivational Interviewing approach in their clinical practice.
• Discuss Motivational Interviewing concepts and terminology.
• Demonstrate improved performance working with patients ambivalent about change.
• Provide strategies for continuing improvement in and self-monitoring of MI skills.

• Interpersonal Skills and Communication         
• Patient Care
• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-based Learning and Improvement

Successful completion of this activity: You MUST COMPLETE all 3 stages to be awarded credit. Partial credit will not be awarded.