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October 2004 Announcements
Electronic Syllabus for Education Forum
Just like the Semi Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, APAP
has an on-line
electronic syllabus instead of a print copy. Materials are posted
in Adobe Acrobat format and will remain on APAP’s Web site for
one year. Session attendees are asked to allow plenty of time to print
out the syllabus submissions for those sessions they will be attending
in Nashville before they arrive at conference.
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 11.75 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:
- The Development of
the PA Profession in Taiwan: A Model for International Educational
Cooperation
- PA Distance Education:
What Were We Thinking?
- Getting Your Teeth
Into It: Incorporating Primary Dental Care Into Your Curriculum
- Clinical Experiences
for First Year PA Students with the Medically Underserved: Description
and Outcome
- Integrating Genetics
Education into a PA Primary Care Curriculum
- Influence of Prior
Health Care Experience on Acdemic Performance
- Introduction to NCCPA's
New Program Portals and Other Current Issues
- Pharmacogenetics: A
Primer for PAs
- Teaching PA Students
to Become Effective Patient Educators: A Unique Project
- The AKOAN Experience:
Patient Logging Made Ridiculously Simple
- The Use of Similated
Patient Encounters to Integrate Physical Diagnosis and Clinical
Skills
- Strengthening PA Training
in Geriatrics
- Developing a Methodology
for Introducing Mock Patients into the Didactic Curriculum
- Filling a Need: Teaching
Surgical Skills
- Integration of Medical
Genomics into the PA Curriculum
- New Directions in PA
Pharmacology Education: Developing the Competent Prescriber
Additional
copies of CME approval forms can be downloaded directly from www.aapa.org/cme/index.html#cme-prog.
Click here
to access the Final program for workshop descriptions.
CASPA
Events at Education Forum
These CASPA presentations are scheduled during this year’s Education
Forum for programs at all stages of participation.
Saturday, November 6 – 7:30–8:45 a.m.
CASPA Stakeholders’ Meeting – Neely
As members of the rapidly growing CASPA service, currently participating
and future CASPA programs are invited to take part in future planning
and policy decisions.
Saturday, November 6 – 8:45–10:00 a.m.
What We Need to Know: Recruitment and Admissions Data
Roundtable – Neely
Participate in a discussion of the Association’s recruitment
and admissions research agenda. Help identify research questions that
will assist your program with successful recruitment and admissions.
ARC-PA
Events at Education Forum
These ARC-PA events are scheduled during this year’s Education
Forum for programs at all stages of participation
Saturday, November 6 – 1:00–2:30 p.m.
ARC-PA Site Visit 101 – Neely
Program directors, faculty, staff, and site visitors are invited to
attend this presentation and discussion session focused on preparing
for an ARC-PA site visit; both physically and mentally! ARC-PA representatives
will share information about the site visit schedule, how to prepare
required site visit materials to assist site visitors in their task
of reviewing information on site, selecting individuals to meet with
the visitors, and more. Those from programs scheduled for an ARC-PA
visit in the next couple of years should find
this session helpful.
Saturday, November 6 – 2:30–4:00 p.m.
ARC-PA Site Visitor Update – Neely
This session (limited to current ARC-PA site visitors) will provide
an opportunity for the ARC-PA to discuss issues related to the site
visit schedule, conducting the visit, completing required paperwork
and communicating with the
program and the ARC-PA. Site visitors will have the opportunity to
participate in a correlation study related to the current site visit
worksheet and review of the self study report. Site visitors who have
not yet RSVP'd for this session should
contact Tammy Whitaker at tammy@arc-pa.org.
Sunday, November 7 – 8:30–11:30 a.m.
ARC-PA Site Visitor Update – Neely
At this very important open forum, ARC-PA representatives will highlight
some of the proposed changes to the current Standards and will facilitate
discussion among attendees regarding the proposed changes. This is
your opportunity to
voice your opinion and discuss the Standards with your peers. (Copies
of the Standards will not be distributed at the meeting. They are
available in Adobe format on the ARC-PA web site at www.arc-pa.org)
ePACKRAT
Update
We are excited to announce the availability of ePACKRAT, Version
9, beginning November 1, 2004. And, so that both Version 8 and Version
9 are not running concurrently, please note that after October 31,
Version 8 will no longer be available for programs to purchase and/or
administer.
Also, beginning this year, programs will have the opportunity to
place multiple orders of the newest version of ePACKRAT for students;
however, only the original, first set of test scores will be used
in the national comparison of your students' scores to those of other
PA programs.
Innovations
in Health Care
Four
PA programs will be recognized and awarded $5,000 each to support
further development or implementation of the practice or curriculum
enhancements through the Tenth
Annual Innovations in Health Care Recognition Program,
sponsored jointly by the Physician
Assistant Foundation, AAPA, and
Pfizer Incorporated. Click here for details.
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