May 2004 Announcements

AAPA and APAP Offer Bulk Discounts for Wireless Solutions

AAPA now offers PAs, PA programs, and students a comprehensive collection of handheld devices, software, and accessories that can be customized and pre-loaded with software. To learn more about discounts and bulk rates for PA programs and students, please call PDA Verticals at 800/462-0388 between 8:30-5:00 PST, and ask for Carrie Solomon. You may also reach her by e-mail at carrie@pdaverticals.com. Visit the AAPA PDA Store at www.aapa.org/aapastore to browse this vast array of PDA hardware and software product lines designed especially for PAs and PA students.

CASPA Sessions at APAP Semiannual Meeting

CASPA Advisory Committee will host a two hour presentation in Las Vegas. One hour will be devoted to a preliminary review of data from classes entering in 2004. During the second hour, a few “case-based” scenarios will be presented. These have been created to illustrate what the committee considers some “best practices” in the admissions process and represent lessons learned from the first three years of the centralized application process. The CASPA Advisory Committee believes that the utilization of such practices will allow programs to maximize the benefits of their participation in CASPA. You are invited to attend. The session is scheduled for Tuesday, June 1, from 3:00-5:00 p.m., room N236, in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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

All sessions are described fully in the Semiannual Meeting Program.

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.

APAP, AAPA Semiannual Meeting Syllabi Available
Only On-line

In order to ensure their timeliness, syllabus materials for CME sessions, with the exception of workshops and adjunct symposia, are 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. Print syllabus materials for the workshops and adjunct symposia are distributed to registrants during the workshops/symposia.

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 in Las Vegas at the On-site Message Center. Print syllabus materials will be available for purchase on-site.

APAP Update - May 2004