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Preventive Medicine 2008 Edition
of ACPM Headlines
Preventive
Medicine 2008, the annual meeting of the American
College of Preventive Medicine, is the premier event for professionals in disease
prevention and health promotion. The meeting advances the science of preventive
medicine through state-of-the-art educational programming and abundant
networking opportunities. Preventive Medicine 2008 will include
exciting sessions in Clinical Preventive Medicine, Public Health Practice,
Healthcare Quality Improvement, Teaching Preventive Medicine, Prevention Policy
and Career Development.
Preventive Medicine 2008
offers 27.75 hours of Continuing Medical Education. These hours are FREE to all
ACPM members!
Preventive
Medicine 2008 presented in conjunction with:
Conference Objectives:
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Attendees will improve competencies in Clinical Preventive Medicine,
Prevention Policy, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Public Health Practice, and
Teaching Preventive Medicine.
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Attendees will learn about evolving career opportunities and emerging skills
required to be effective in an era of increased emphasis on preventive
medicine and evidence-based, population-oriented health care.
Meeting Tracks
Preventive Medicine 2008
will be featuring state-of-the-art educational sessions and skill building
institutes within five conference tracks:
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Clinical Preventive Medicine: This track covers a wide range of topics in
evidence-based clinical prevention, including health promotion, early clinical
detection and case-finding, counseling and risk factor modification, and
intervention.
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Public Health Practice: This track encompasses innovations in
population-based approaches to preventing and controlling disease. Sessions on
this track aim to emphasize issues of public health significance.
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Teaching Preventive Medicine:
Developed in conjunction
with the Association for Prevention Research and Teaching,
this track includes sessions that assist those professionals involved in
teaching preventive medicine in a variety of health professions training
settings, including new models and approaches in teaching preventive medicine.
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Healthcare Quality Improvement: Developed in conjunction with the American
College of Medical Quality, this track will address an array of topics
from the core curriculum in medical quality developed by ACMQ, including risk
analysis, information technology, patient safety, and quality and outcomes
assessment.
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Prevention Policy: This track seeks to provide participants with an
understanding of important and emerging national policy issues of concern to
preventive medicine professionals, and to improve participants’ effectiveness
in addressing policy issues of concern in their own communities.
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Career Development
Sub-track:
This brand new track features resident and medical student specific content in
sessions, lectures, meetings, round tables, and social events. The purpose of
this track is to encourage members of the APMR, MSS, and YPS to develop
professional relationships with each other and ACPM members while gathering
information pertinent to their stage of training.
Click here for the agenda and session details.
Over 800 individuals are expected to attend Preventive
Medicine 2008 including, ACPM members, physicians, federal and local
government employees, corporate medical directors, nurses, residents, medical
students, health plan managers, preventive medicine faculty, and other decision
makers from professional physician associations and the public health field.
This is an event not to be missed!
New conference information and the latest updates will be
added to the website as it becomes available, so be sure to check back often.
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