To ensure that AzAAP’s education programs remain evidence-based and include current recommended guidelines, the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee focuses its efforts in the following key areas:

• Coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the CME program and its individual activities to establish quality and consistency in content development and design process of each program,
• Providing oversight for the accreditation of the CME program,
• Recommending new directions and/or initiatives for AzAAP continuous learning opportunities
• Working with volunteer groups of AzAAP members willing to plan a CME activity on an area in which a knowledge gap has been identified.
  

Committee Achievements

The many recent activities and achievements of the AzAAP CME Committee include:

• Expanded membership of the committee to include Pediatric Hospitalists
• Collaborated with various AzAAP committees to utilize their expertise in planning educational activities including the Young Physicians Committee, Pediatric Council and Hospitalist Committee
• Incorporated a Hospitalist Track into the 2012 Pediatrics in the Red Rocks Conference
• Provided seven opportunities for continuing medical education in 2011, including:
  • 34th Annual Pediatrics in the Red Rocks Conference
  • 3rd Annual Practice Efficiency & Business of Vaccines
  • Young Physicians CME Dinner- Billing and Coding: What You Didn’t Learn in Residency
  • Partnering with Pediatricians for Healthy Living and Drug Free Kids  web-based CME activity
  • The Challenge of Adolescent Immunizations and Preventative Care web-based CME activity
  • Consent and Confidentiality in Adolescent Health web-based CME activity

Committee Leadership:

Committee Chair: Chan Lowe, MD, FAAP
Committee Vice Chair:  Gary Auxier, MD, FHM, FAAP
AzAAP Staff:  Rebecca Nevedale

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