WEB-BASED LEARNING
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
Plenty of Online CME at NCAFP.com The NCAFP has produced four online educational programs this past year. Each of these programs is available online at no charge to NCAFP/AAFP members simply by visiting http:// www.ncafp.com/home/cme/online. Physicians can capture a total of eight prescribed credits in two convenient formats: three (3) interactive online programs (w/audio and slides) and one downloadable printed monograph. Here is a summary of what’s available right now — take advantage of these today: Promoting Adolescent Health Through Immunization - In this one hour program, Dr. J. Carson Rounds addresses adolescent health to help physicians implement the latest immunization recommendations. Features audio and slides. Free with simple registration. 1 Prescribed Credit. Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Advances - Dr. Mott P. Blair and Carolyn Dunn, PhD, review current trends in childhood obesity prevention and provide several evidence-based strategies for family physicians. 1.5 Prescribed Credits. Adolescent Immunization Advances: Preventing Meningococcal - Dr. J. Carson Rounds discusses how meningococcal disease is so difficult to diagnose because its signs and symptoms may be hard to distinguish from common viral illnesses. 2.0 Prescribed Credits. Osteoporosis: A Perspective for Family Physicians - 10 million people in the United States have osteoporosis. Millions more have low bone mass (called osteopenia), placing them at risk for osteoporosis and broken bones. Eighty percent of US citizens with osteoporosis are women. Dr. Richard Lord, MA, Program Chair, presents a complete discussion on this important topic in a downloadable monograph format. 4.0 Prescribed Credits.
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Myrtle Beach Here We Come! Don’t Miss The 2008 NCAFP Mid-Summer Family Medicine Digest - June 29 – July 4, 2008 Come and enjoy July Fourth while taking in quality evidence-based CME. The NCAFP 2008 Mid-Summer Family Medicine Digest (June 29-July 4, 2008) will feature a convenient schedule of half-day sessions that open up your afternoons for family fun and recreation. Program Chair Dr. Brian R. Forrest has planned an outstanding program full of variety that covers key issues facing most primary care physicians today. This is the second year that the Academy has delivered the meeting in this schedule and format.
and analyzing patient somatic symptoms, as well as managing the patient with depression from diagnosis through treatment. This activity is geared toward Maintenance of Certification and assisting members in tackling their Self Assessment Modules (SAMs), clinical simulations, and practice improvement projects.
Smoking Cessation – Participants will be able to identify patients that are thinking of quitting or are ready to quit smoking, outline an effective behavioral modification program The Mid-Summer Family Medicine for patients that includes strategies Digest will present over 26 prescribed to overcome high levels of nicotine educational credits. Evidence-based dependence and lifelong psychological credit is being sought for a number of dependence on smoking, describe lectures, and based on their approval, the steps (i.e. 5 A’s) or STAGES for will only increase the total number of intervention with tobacco users, credits available. Here are some great identify the local, state, and national topics currently scheduled: groups who can provide materials and support for smoking cessation Complete information is online Management of Alzheimer’s Disease at www.ncafp.com/msfmd efforts and utilize financial resources in a Primary Care Setting (AD) – available with proper coding of effective This program will utilize case study smoking cessation treatment. discussion to review the evidence supporting best practices in AD management. The goal will be Myrtle Beach couldn’t be a more fun, lively and to provide attendees with the factors that should be entertaining place to be on the Fourth of July! There’s considered in the management of the patient with AD so much to do, see and explore, that everyone in and improve patient outcomes. the family will have a story to tell. For complete conference information, go to the Academy website at Vaccines Update – This program will highlight http://www.ncafp.com/msfmd. recommendations for the use of newlylicensed vaccines, including meningococcal conjugate vaccines and tetanus-diptheria July 2008 December 2008 an acellular pertussis vaccine for adolescents. Anticipated FDA approval of certain 2008 NCAFP 2008 NCAFP vaccines will be discussed. Major Depressive Disorder – Is MDD over Diagnosed? What Every Primary Care Professional Needs to Know - This program will assist learners in diagnosing patients with depression, using screening questions
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UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS
Leadership Retreat
Annual Meeting
July 26,2008
Dec. 4-7, 2008
Cary, NC
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Asheville, NC
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