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September 2005 Announcements

APAP Membership to Vote on Core Competencies

The APAP membership will have an opportunity in November to vote on the document, Competencies for the Physician Assistant Profession, jointly developed by APAP, AAPA, ARC-PA, and NCCPA. The other three PA organizations have already endorsed the document. The competencies document will also be included in the online version of the business book, to be published in the October APAP Update.

 

CME Credit to Be Awarded for Select APAP Sessions

The Physician Assistant Review Panel awarded 9.25 hours of AAPA Category I (Preapproved) CME to the program entitled APAP Education Forum provided by the Association of Physician Assistant Programs. Physician assistants should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.

The following sessions were approved for CME credit

 Core Cultural Competencies for PA Students one hour
Helping Students Understand the Importance
of Advance Directives		 one hour
Helping Students Understand the Stigma
of Mental Illness		 one hour
Increasing PA Student Comfort
in Obtaining Thorough Sexual Histories		 .25 hours

Integrating Cultural Competency Across
the PA Curriculum

 one hour
Integrating Oral Health with Primary Care:
Update for Teaching Faculty		 .75 hours
Is Race a Criterion When Prescribing Medications? .25 hours
Is the Evidence Enough? one hour
Issues for the Education and Management
of the Physically Challenged Patient 		one hour
Preparing Physician Assistant Students for the
Paradigm of Improving Chronic Illness Care		 one hour
Teaching PA Students to Effectively Address the
Nation’s Number One Preventable Cause of Death		 one hour

Please see the Preliminary Program for descriptions of all sessions being offered at the APAP Education Forum.

New PA Foundation Video Available to Programs

The Physician Assistant Foundation invites you to meet PAs serving their communities in a new video produced to share the foundation’s success stories. Learn about eight extraordinary projects funded by the PA Foundation, including a student group running a healthy foot clinic in Washington, D.C., a group in Tennessee promoting healthy food choices for elementary students, and a clinic in Utah making sure that migrant workers receive medical treatment.

Each year, the PA Foundation provides over $200,000 in grants, awards, and scholarships to help fulfill the goals and dreams of individual PAs and to advance the PA profession.

This video is particularly helpful for use during PA classes, particularly in a professional issues class.

If you are interested in receiving a DVD or videotape, please contact Francesca Rusk at frusk@aapa.org or 703/836-2272, ext. 3114.

 

AAPA Provides Space Release Forms for 2006
Annual Conference

AAPA space release guidelines and forms for the 2006 AAPA Annual Conference in San Francisco are now available at www.aapa.org/annual-conf. Constituent groups and alumni organizations that are planning meetings or receptions are asked to use these forms and to respond as soon as possible to reserve space for your activities. Please direct questions to Amy Phillips, AAPA meetings director, at amy@aapa.org.

 

APAP Update - September 2005