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October 2005 Announcements

CME Credit to Be Awarded for Select APAP Sessions

The Physician Assistant Review Panel has 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 Final Program for descriptions of all sessions being offered at the APAP Education Forum.

AAPA’s 15th Annual Poster Session — Call for Abstracts 2005-2006

The 15th Annual Clinical and Professional Poster Session is among the exciting events scheduled for AAPA’s 34th Annual PA Conference in San Francisco. Coordinated by the AAPA Clinical and Scientific Affairs Council (CSAC), it features posters in three categories: original research, case studies/clinical reports, and previously presented posters.

PA educators are encouraged to submit abstracts on educational research and curricular innovations. PA students are also encouraged to participate and submit their research for the Student Research Gallery that will showcase research projects and assignments in PA education courses.

This session offers unique opportunities for PAs and PA faculty to present and discuss their research, interesting cases, or programs with colleagues and other conference attendees.

All submitted abstracts must be authored or co-authored by a PA or PA student who is a current member of AAPA. The easy submission process is done entirely on-line. For additional information and to submit your abstract, please visit the AAPA Web site, www.aapa.org/annual-conf/index.html, or contact Cheryl Holmes, cholmes@aapa.org or 703/836-2272, ext. 3419.

 

AAPA Government and Professional Affairs Department Offers Bibliography Online

AAPA’s Government and Professional Affairs Department is pleased to announce that the Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Physician Assistant Profession (1993) and the subsequent Addendum (1993-1999), previously available only in book format through the AAPA Store, are now accessible on the AAPA Web site. Visit www.aapa.org/gandp/pro-issues.html to find the links to these publications (see the bottom row of the chart at the top of the Web page). We have also posted a list of articles that has been added to our bibliography file since 1999. It is available in the same location.

PA Foundation Announces 11th Annual
Innovations Program

The Physician Assistant (PA) Foundation, the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), and Pfizer Inc are pleased to announce the 11th Annual Innovations in Health Care Recognition Program. Through this initiative, the PA Foundation, AAPA, and Pfizer continue their commitment to supporting physician assistants in developing innovations in clinical practice and in PA educational programs.

The application is available online at http://www.aapa.org/paf/innovations-form.pdf, and the deadline is November 1, 2005. Winners will be notified in late December and will be acknowledged throughout the year by both the PA Foundation and AAPA. If you have questions, contact Francesca Rusk-Wallace at fruskwallace@aapa.org or 703/836-2272, ext. 3114.

AAMC Seeks Applicants for International Clinical Research Training Fellowship

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is seeking applicants for an international clinical research training fellowship for graduate-level health professions students. The program is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Fogarty International Center, in partnership with the Ellison Medical Foundation, the NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. The AAMC and the Association of Schools of Public Health manage the program, which is in its third year. This one-year program provides students with mentored research training at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers in countries including Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, China, Haiti, India, Kenya, Mali, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia. Applications are due by December 28, 2005. To learn more, please visit http://www.aamc.org/overseasfellowship.

 

 

APAP Update - October 2005