February 2004 Announcements

CME Credit to be Awarded for Select Workshops

The APAP Semiannual Meeting has been reviewed and approved for a maximum of three hours of clinical and 1.5 hours of professional Category I (Preapproved) CME credit by the Physician Assistant Review Panel. Physician assistants should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.

Sessions Approved for Clinical Credit

• What’s Out There? Biological and Chemical Weapons
  Preparedness — 1 hour
• Do No Harm? — .75 hours
• Oral Cancer Screening — .25 hours
• Improving Chronic Disease Care — 1 hour

Sessions Approved for Professional Credit

• Innovations in Teaching Ethics and Professionalism to
  PA Students — .25 hours
• Teaching in the Outpatient Setting — Skills for
  Clinical Preceptors — 1 hour
• HIPAA: Privacy Training for Students in the
  Medical Fields — .25 hours

A workshop available through the AAPA, Psychosocial Aspects of Bioterrorism: Education for Readiness & Response — A Train-the-trainer Workshop for PA Educators, is open to PA program faculty and clinical preceptors of PA students. PAs attending this workshop are eligible for four hours of Clinical Category I CME credit.

See the preliminary listing of the presentations. Full descriptions of each of the APAP sessions, as well as the AAPA workshop on bioterrorism, will appear in the March issue of the Update.

APAP Syllabus for Semiannual Meeting Available On-line

In order to ensure their timeliness, syllabus materials, with the exception of AAPA hands-on workshops and adjunct symposia, will be available only from the AAPA Conference Web site at https://members.aapa.org/aapaconf2004/. This applies as well to syllabus materials for all APAP workshops, roundtables, and pearl sessions. Go to the 2004 Annual Conference Planner at the above Web address and select the APAP or CME categories. Sessions that have syllabus materials available on-line will have an Adobe Acrobat symbol in the Syllabus column — the last column of the chart.

If you wish to have free print copies of the materials, please print them before reaching Las Vegas, whether you pre-register or register on-site. You will be unable to print syllabus materials at the On-site Message Center.

Syllabus materials are posted immediately upon receipt from faculty and will remain on the conference Web site for one year. Please remember that the conference Web site may be extremely busy from May 25-31. Plan your schedule early and allow plenty of time to print out the syllabus submissions for those sessions you plan on attending. Print syllabus materials will be available for purchase on-site. Syllabus materials for the AAPA hands-on workshops and adjunct symposia will be distributed to attendees during the workshops/symposia.

Questions Needed for SAAAPA’s 14th Annual National Medical Challenge Bowl

No Challenge Bowl? The Challenge Bowl is one of everyone’s favorite events at the conference, but without the questions there can be no competition! Each year dozens of questions in our question bank are eliminated because they are outdated or otherwise no longer suitable for use. Your yearly submission of potential questions is vital to the continuation of this event. Please check out the guidelines for submissions and submit yours as soon as possible.

APAP Update - February 2004