For PHYSICIANS

Refresher: Updated Dignity in Pregnancy & Childbirth

⏰ 30 minutes, includes optional activities 

🏆 0.5 Continuing Education credit available (ACCME / AMA PRA Category 1 CME) 

📜 Certificate of Completion

This course reinforces and refreshes knowledge gained from the Dignity in Pregnancy & Childbirth course.

Skills that are not used regularly can fade, especially the split-second habits that shape communication and clinical decisions under time pressure, heavy caseloads, fatigue, and stress. A refresher is a short, focused course that brings those skills back to front of mind and updates them with current evidence, so strong practice does not quietly drift over time.

This 30-minute refresher is for physicians who completed Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth about two years ago. It reinforces the core, evidence-based tools for delivering consistent, high-quality perinatal care, sharpens the in-the-moment techniques that interrupt automatic cognitive shortcuts before they affect an encounter, and folds in new insights and practical strategies added since the original course.

Why every two years? Research on adult learning shows that brief, spaced reinforcement is one of the most reliable ways to make skills durable. A single training produces a strong initial effect that naturally weakens as months pass and daily demands pull practice back toward old defaults. A short booster at regular intervals restores that effect, consolidates the behaviors that improve care, and keeps the whole team practicing consistently. At 30 minutes, it delivers that benefit at a fraction of the time and cost of the full course.

The result is steadier clinical judgment, clearer communication, and more consistent, respectful care for every perinatal patient, with less day-to-day stress and greater confidence for you.

What You Gain

A brief, high-value reset that keeps your most important perinatal care skills sharp and current.

For Clinicians

  • Renewed command of practical, in-the-moment tools you can use in your next encounter
  • Reinforcement of the habits that keep decisions and communication consistent under pressure
  • The latest evidence-based strategies and updates added since the original course
  • Trauma-informed communication practices that strengthen patient trust
  • Lower workplace stress and greater confidence through smoother patient interactions
  • 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credit and a certificate of completion

For Organizations

  • A low-time-cost way to keep perinatal quality and safety skills from eroding across your workforce
  • Consistent practice across clinicians, shifts, and sites
  • A documented, repeatable two-year reinforcement cycle that supports quality and reporting goals
  • Evidence-based content with measurable objectives, ready for department or system-wide assignment

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:


  • Apply evidence-based strategies to deliver consistent, high-quality perinatal care across varied patients, settings, and clinical conditions.

  • Explain how multiple, interacting aspects of a patient's background and circumstances can shape their perinatal care experience, clinical interactions, and outcomes.

  • Recognize how automatic cognitive shortcuts, which can arise under time pressure, cognitive load, and stress, may influence perinatal assessments and communication, and apply in-the-moment tools to interrupt them.

  • Use respectful, individualized communication practices that reflect how each patient wishes to be identified and addressed, strengthening patient-provider trust.

  • Integrate trauma-informed care principles into daily practice so perinatal encounters leave patients feeling respected, understood, and supported.

  • Strengthen professional confidence and reduce workplace stress by improving the consistency and clarity of patient engagement and communication.

Course Format

Video elearning, job aids, essential reading, and reflective activities. The self-paced format allows you to learn at your convenience.

Who Should Enroll

Physicians who completed Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth approximately two years ago and want to refresh and update their skills.

Prerequisite: This course builds on the original and is designed to reinforce, not replace, it. If you have not taken Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth, start there.

For organizations: Recommended as a scheduled two-year booster for obstetrics, family medicine, maternal-fetal medicine, emergency, and hospitalist physicians who provide perinatal care. Well suited to routine reassignment as part of an ongoing quality and safety cycle.

Why do Optum Health, Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific, Hospital Association of New York, HealthPartners, Cleveland Clinic, the Permanente Medical Group, Sutter Health, Confluence Health, The Indiana Hospital Association, and the California Health Care Foundation, among others, choose our courses?

In their words:

#unmatched expertise | #the best we have seen | #truly evidence-based  | #top marks from our doctors | #head & shoulders above the rest  

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