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Skill-Building Institutes
The American College of
Preventive Medicine is offering several intensive skill-building institutes at
Preventive Medicine 2008. Each institute offers 4 to 7 hours of
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit and they include:
- Preventive Medicine
Review Institute: The Preventive Medicine Review Institute will be a
review of Chronic Disease and Clinical Preventive Medicine infectious Disease
in preparation of the Board Exam.
- Setting Up a
Lifestyle-Modification Strategy in the Clinical Office:
This institute will
provide knowledge and exposure to different lifestyle modification strategies
to enable physicians to effectively decrease their patients’ risk of
developing cardiovascular disease. This session, designed for primary care
physicians, health care administrations, academic physicians, and trainees,
will describe currently available lifestyle interventions, tools, and
strategies. Participants will be able to try out the different tools and
intervention techniques, using small group discussions, videos, and practice
sessions. Concentrating on smoking cessation programs, diabetes management,
and obesity prevention, the challenges of initiating and maintaining the
different intervention programs will be examined, and the session will
conclude with a tutorial on how to best choose the most cost-effective
strategy to monitor these controllable risk factors in various clinical
settings.
- Local Health
Authority Workshop:
Public leaders from the state of Texas and city of
Austin will lead an
interactive/case driven workshop on issues affecting citizens in Texas,
including Austin specific issues. Topics include quarantine issues, TB,
hepatitis A, food borne outbreak, dealing with the media, and public health
role in disasters.
- Advocacy Skill
Building: In this half day workshop, participants will
develop and practice skills in policy development and advocacy. Skills and
topics to be addressed in the institute include: assessing policy needs;
tracking the policy process; writing policy; coalition building;
contacting/cultivating support from legislators; policy adoption; policy
implementation; monitoring/evaluating policy effectiveness; using science
effectively; and guidelines for participation in the policy/advocacy process
by public employees. Participants will have the opportunity to apply these
concepts using current or recent federal or state legislation. Skills covered
in this workshop are broadly applicable to policy development and advocacy in
a variety of settings and at all levels of governance. This workshop is
appropriate for people at all skill levels and with varying amounts of
experience participating in the policy process.
- Preventive Services
Tool Kit Workshop:This Institute will not duplicate the congressional advocacy content of the morning Institute. We will address advocacy strategy and implementation, primarily at state,
local and health facility levels. We will include a special segment to present
the ACPM Board with proposed enhancements to their advocacy agenda to enhance
the future prospects of the specialty of Preventive Medicine. This case-based
and problem-oriented Policy/Advocacy Institute will teach policy and advocacy
skills drawn from political science, organizational development, and public
administration – then adapted by the PSTK
Team for public health and healthcare settings.
- How to Use Data to
Improve Quality: Is Safety different from Quality? What measures and
codes to use for Quality based reimbursement? Interactive Case Study workshop
with tools and applications for everyday use! Physician, System and Health
plan based learning modules.
- Putting Undergraduate
Public Health Into Practice Undergraduate Public Health Education-
Skills Building Institute: The Undergraduate Public Health Skills Building
Institute will provide hands-on small group workshops in a choice of three
core courses being recommended for all colleges and universities “Public
Health 101”, “Epidemiology 101”, “Global Health 101”. These sessions will be
led by Richard Riegelman, Mark Kaelin, Victor Barbiero respectively.
Participants in the “101” courses will receive and use curriculum frameworks
and learning outcomes as well as materials to illustrate the frameworks.
Suzanne Cashman will lead a workshop on Service-Learning in Health that will
assist public health practitioners to maximize the benefits of community based
experiences. Undergraduate public health resources available at
www.teachpublichealth.org and on PERC will also be illustrated.
- Health Care
Disparities: Closing the Gap: Sponsored by the Commission to End
Health Care Disparities, this three hour workshop trains physicians on
effective solutions that they can use in their clinical practices to improve
the quality of care for racial and ethnic minority patients. A highly
interactive workshop, participants will discuss the magnitude and causes of
health care disparities and work in small groups to identify strategies for
how they can implement a specific set of solutions.
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