September 2003 Announcements

HRSA Offers Notification for FY 2004 Grants Preview

Program faculty who would like to be notified by e-mail when HRSA publishes its Fiscal Year 2004 Grants Preview may sign up on the HRSA site. To do so, please click here. Once at the HRSA Web page, click on the notification option under “Preview of FY 2004 Grant Program.”

CSAC Calls for Abstracts

The Clinical and Scientific Affairs Council (CSAC) of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) announces a call for abstracts for its 13th Annual Clinical and Professional Poster Session. Poster session activities will be held in conjunction with AAPA’s 32nd Annual Physician Assistant Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Click here for details.

An Updated Resource: AAPA’s 2003 Professional Practice Resource List

Of interest to PA faculty and students, AAPA’s Professional Affairs staff has expanded and updated its list of professional practice topics and associated AAPA resources. The list is intended to assist PA programs with meeting the requirement regarding the PA role and professional issues found in the Accreditation Standards for Physician Assistant Education. Available on AAPA’s Web site in the “Professional Practice Information” section at http://www.aapa.org/gandp/propractopref.html, the list draws upon print and on-line information sources to comprise a wide-ranging and timely resource. Professional practice topics covered include contract negotiation, PA specialty practice, coding, hospital privileges, managed care, legislation, reimbursement, state regulations, statistics and trends, liability issues, team practice, and other professional practice topics.

CME Credit 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 and all presentation choices.

AMA Requests PA Programs Complete 2003 Survey

Each year, John McCarty, executive director of the ARC-PA, requests that APAP encourage its member programs to respond to the American Medical Association (AMA) Annual Survey of Health Professions, posted on-line at http://www.ama-assn.org/go/hpsurvey. The APAP Research Institute has approved this survey.

The American Medical Association 2003 Survey of Health Professions Education Programs is a joint project of the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) and the American Medical Association (AMA). Data collected on this survey are used to update each program’s free listing in the 2004-2005 editions of the Health Professions Career and Education Directory. Survey data are also used for the Health Professions Education Data Book. PA programs that have not completed the survey are asked to send updates at their earliest convenience, since the survey deadline has passed.

To obtain survey login information, program directors may contact Dorothy Grant, dorothy_grant@ama-assn.org; 312/464-4936 or 312/464-5333.

APAP Update - September 2003