March 2004 Announcements

CME Credit To Be Awarded for Select APAP Workshops

The APAP Semiannual Meeting has been reviewed and approved for a maximum of 2.25 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
• 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

Please see descriptions of all the sessions available at APAP’s Semiannual Meeting.

AAPA Presents Workshop on Bioterrorism at Annual Meeting

Psychosocial Aspects of Bioterrorism: Preparing PAs Utilizing an Evidence-based, Experiential Model and Multi-Modal Evaluation is being presented by the Division of Primary Care, Center for Health Information Preparedness, New York University School of Medicine, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Specialty Center for Public Health Preparedness. The workshop is free of charge and scheduled for June 2, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at AAPA’s Annual 32nd Meeting in Las Vegas. The workshop 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. Goals, presenters, and a schedule are included at this link.

Physician Assistant Foundation Announces Funding for Humanitarian Assistance

The PA Foundation has established a new grant opportunity, the Global Outreach Program, designed to fund humanitarian assistance programs in underserved areas of the United States and developing countries. The program will provide grants to support work to improve the quality of life by creating sustainable development in the areas of health care or health education. The deadline for applications is April 1. Additional information and the application are available at http://www.aapa.org/paf/pafgophag.pdf. PA programs involved in a humanitarian effort are encouraged to apply.

APAP Semiannual Meeting Syllabus 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.

APAP Update - March 2004