AHRQ Announces Health Literacy Continuing Education Offerings

Nurses and doctors can now earn continuing education credits at no cost for completing AHRQ-supported learning modules that highlight the challenges of caring for patients with low health literacy as well as strategies for improving patient communication and care. Select to access Web-based modules developed in collaboration with OptumHealth: An Updated Overview of Health Literacy orImproving Health Literacy by Improving Communication Skills. In addition, board-certified pediatricians and family physicians can earn maintenance of certification credit through health literacy self-assessment activities through American Board of Pediatrics andAmerican Board of Family Medicine online learning activities.