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AAFP Recruiting Practices for Smoking Cessation Pilot
The AAFP is recruiting 50 family medicine practices for a pilot project that will train Office Champions to implement system changes that integrate tobacco cessation activities into daily office routines.
The program will educate Office Champions through an online training module, live teleconferences, and a practice manual. The Office Champions will be required to submit an implementation plan to the AAFP and track and report results.
Practices that complete the program will receive $3,500 to cover administrative costs, plus a recognition kit with materials to be used to communicate their success, including a press release, certificates, posters, an article for patient newsletters, and electronic "Tobacco Treatment Excellence" logos. Participating offices will also be recognized in an advertisement in American Family Physician, in materials distributed at the AAFP Scientific Assembly, and on the AAFP web site.
The deadline to apply is August 16, 2010. Participating sites will be announced in September, and project implementation and evaluation will take place from October 2010 through May 2011.
Apply and get more information at www.askandact.org/officechampion or http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/publichealth/tobacco/officechampions.html
This project is supported by Pfizer Inc
Also, check out the AAFP News Now story posted online: AAFP Recruiting Practices for Smoking Cessation Pilot 'Office Champions' Program Aims to Ramp Up Anti-Tobacco Activities
Please feel free to share with your colleagues and members. Contact Pamela J. Rodriguez, CAE, Tobacco Control Manager (Tar Wars & Ask and Act Programs) with any questions.
American Academy of Family Physicians
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
Leawood, KS 66211
Phone: 800-274-2237, ext. 3135
Fax: 913-906-6099
E-mail: prodriguez@aafp.org
Web: www.tarwars.org
and www.askandact.org
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RFMC – October 9, 2010, The Desmond, Albany, NY
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CAP PC - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Primary Care
First training date: Syracuse on Friday, 7/16 – Sunday, 7/18
A new project designed to strengthen and integrate the relationship between primary care and child psychiatry has been launched by the University at Buffalo's Department of Psychiatry. This multi-site project, funded for two years by the NYS Office of Mental Health, offers family physicians an opportunity to:
- Receive CME training from the REACH Institute so that you can better recognize, assess, and manage mental health problems in children and adolescents.
- Access project child/adolescent psychiatrists for phone and face-to-face consultation support five days a week from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
- Provide a project case manager to assist with linkage and referral to specialty child mental health services.
Ten family physicians and 10 pediatricians in each of five areas of the state will be chosen to attend a three-day dynamic workshop, led by Peter Jensen, MD and a group of internationally renowned medical teachers. There is no cost for the participating family physicians and pediatricians. The intensive training consists of interactive, active learning techniques and will be followed up for 6 months with twice monthly phone conferences. For more information on the project at any of the sites on the dates listed below, see: http://thereachinstitute.org or contact the person listed for that site.
7/16-18 (Fri-Sun), Syracuse - Terri Hargrave, MD, SUNY Upstate, (315)464-3265 kipterri4@yahoo.com
8/6-8 (Fri-Sun), Buffalo - David Kaye, MD, U of Buffalo, (716) 887-5775 dlkaye@buffalo.edu
8/12-14 (Thurs-Sat), Rochester - Mike Scharf, MD, U of Rochester, (585) 275-3556 Michael_scharf@urmc.rochester.edu
8/19-21 (Thurs-Sat), Columbia - Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD, Columbia U. (212) 543-2628 zuckerbr@childpsych.columbia.edu
9/11-13 (Sat-Mon), LIJ - Carmel Foley, MD, Cohen Child Med Center, (516) 470-3550, cfoley@lij.edu
Click here for details on this event.
Click here to register for this event.
ALSO INSTRUCTOR Course - October 28, 2010 Hershey, PA
This one-day course focuses on specific teaching skills required for the didactic lectures, hands-on small group workstations, and testing stations presented in the ALSO Provider Course (must be a current provider to be eligible to attend the ALSO Instructor Course).
The ALSO Instructor Course includes sessions on:
- Teaching interactive workstations using mannequins and other equipment.
- Presenting effective lectures.
- Teaching workstations using slides.
- Offering effective feedback.
Eligible attendees are physicians, third-year residents, certified nurse midwives, and registered nurses. Active ALSO® Provider status is required for acceptance into the ALSO® Instructor Course. Click here to learn more about the ALSO Instructor courses and attendance eligibility.
Registration Fees
**September 21st is the last day to register! Approximately 3 weeks prior to the course, participants will receive a packet containing the instructor manual and material for the course. There will be advance preparation required.
Register before 8/15/10 - $500; register after 8/15/10 - $575
Click here to register.
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The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) has become the most discussed practice
model in medicine and offers potential for enhancing the physician-patient partnership
in improving practice efficiency and clinical outcomes.
Prescriber's Letter Subscription
Follow this link to subscribe to the Prescriber's Letter and receive the NYSAFP
member discount: http://www.prescribersletter.com/nysafp
Kern Augustine Conroy & Schoppmann, P.C.
Kern Augustine Conroy & Schoppmann, P.C. - legal counsel for the NYSAFP. Offers access to firm’s services and publications to Academy members.
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Abusing the False Label of “Disruptive” in Today’s Medicine - By: Michael J. Schoppmann, Esq. / Kern Augustine Conroy & Schoppmann, P.C..
Pulse - Voices from the heart of medicine
Pulse--voices from the heart of
medicine (www.pulsemagazine.org),
a unique online publication and community created by family physicians that
invites patients and health professionals to share their healthcare experiences.
Every Friday, Pulse e-mails an issue--a single first-person story or a poem.
The stories are professionally edited to op-ed length; readers post comments
and are invited to submit their own stories.
>> View Pulse website here: www.pulsemagazine.org
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