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August 2003 Announcements


CME Credit to be Awarded for Select Forum Sessions

APAP is pleased to announce that its Education Forum has been reviewed and approved for a maximum of 4.75 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.

This program was planned in accordance with AAPA’s CME Standards for Live Programs and for Commercial support of Live Programs.

Sessions eligible for CME credit follow:

  • An Interactive Multimedia Tool for Clinical Genetics Instruction in PA Programs
  • The Physician-Physician Assistant Team: The Doctor’s Perspective
  • Conflict Management
  • Palm Technology and HIPAA Guidelines: Do’s and Don’ts
  • Using Technology to Develop a Cross-Sectional Anatomy Module
  • PA Preparedness for Terrorism: How Should We Prepare the Future PA?
  • A Brief Report of a Workshop on PA Preparedness for Bioterrorism
  • Professionalism — Ethics are First and Certainly Last

Additional copies of CME approval forms can be downloaded directly from www.aapa.org/cme/index.html#cme-prog.

Click here to access the October meeting program.


APAP Reaches Out to Its Medical Directors

Medical directors, in particular, will want to check out the following sessions scheduled for the October Forum:

  • Maximizing our potential: effecting closer collaboration between PA programs and medical directors explores the medical director’s role, collaboration between medical directors and program directors, and innovative ways medical directors support PA programs and the profession.
  • Preventive medicine in PA education reviews national efforts to develop and integrate a preventive medicine core curriculum for U.S. health professions’ educational programs and the challenges to incorporating such curricula into PA programs.
  • Conflict management identifies why patients become upset with their providers. It suggests behavior that helps patients feel better and targets the warning signs of “compassion fatigue.”
  • The physician-physician assistant team: the doctor’s perspective provides medical directors with an effective means to improve strategic relations with physician groups and creates an awareness of PAs in the medical community.


 Veterans Caucus Provides Assistance to Applicants with Military Backgrounds

The AAPA’s Veterans Caucus has generously provided a $1,500 grant to CASPA to expand its fee waiver programs for applicants who qualify. The grant will be made available to veterans, active duty, and reserve members of the U.S. uniformed services or National Guard. Interested applicants must provide appropriate documentation and send CASPA a brief letter to request consideration under the Veterans Caucus CASPA Application Fee Waiver program. Information about these waivers is available in CASPA’s on-line instructions at www.caspaonline.org. APAP is very grateful to the Veterans Caucus for its unique expression of support to PA programs and applicants.


The AAPA Provides Space Release Forms for 2004
Annual Meeting

The AAPA has posted its space release guidelines and forms for the 2004 AAPA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas on its Web site at http://www.aapa.org/annual-conf/index.html. Constituent groups and alumni organizations planning meetings or receptions are asked to use these forms. Please direct questions to AAPA Meetings Manager Lauren Miller at lmiller@aapa.org.

 

APAP Update - August 2003