CME Program

Women's Healthcare Forum CME programs are jointly sponsored by the Foundation for Better Health Care (FBHC) and Women's Healthcare Forum, Inc. (WHF). The FBHC is an independent nonprofit educational organization that is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Goal

The goal of the WHF is to increase awareness of gender-based differences that impact human physiology, the pathophysiology of disease, and health-related outcomes. Gender-based differences begin at conception and persist through life. For this reason, the WHF presents a global approach to healthcare designed to guide health-related strategies throughout the lifespan.

Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence, performance or patient outcomes. Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Recognize the gender-based differences in disease manifestation and response to therapeutic intervention (competence) in order to diagnose, treat, and manage (performance) each patient appropriately (patient outcomes)
  • Institute of Medicine. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter? Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001. [Evidence Level C]
• Explore advances in the evolving field of women's health (competence) and integrate state-of-the-art knowledge and evidence-based practice into preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic practice (performance)
  • Bird CE, Rieker PP. Gender matters: an integrated model for understanding men's and women's health. Soc Sci Med. 1991; 48:745-755. [Evidence Level C]
  • Straus SE, Richardson WS, Glasziou P, Haynes RB. Evidence-Based Medicine. 3rd ed. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone; 2005.
• Review key preventive measures that facilitate longevity and improve quality of care and quality of life for women (competence)
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. US Preventive Services Task Force. Available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm. Accessed July 19, 2005.[Evidence Level C]
• Improve communication skills to enhance a physician-patient partnership that emphasizes patient-centered care and promotes positive health behaviors (performance/patient outcomes)
  • Stewart M, Brown JB, Donner A, et al. The impact of patient-centered care on outcomes. J Fam Pract. 2000;49:796-804. [Evidence Level C]
  • Greiner AC, Knebel E, eds. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2003. [Evidence Level C]

Needs Assessment

The FBHC has incorporated into this CME activity the relevant educational needs concerning knowledge, competence, or performance that underlie the professional practice gaps of our participants.

CME Credit Designation

• CME Credit. The FBHC designates this activity for a maximum of 15 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award
• AAFP EB-CME Credit. This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 28.00 credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Of these credits, 14.00 conform to the AAFP criteria for evidence-based CME clinical content. CME credit has been increased to reflect 2 for 1 credit for only the EB CME portion. When reporting AAFP credit, report total Prescribed and Elective credit for this activity. It is not necessary to label credit as evidence-based CME for reporting purposes.
  
  The EB CME credit awarded for this activity was based on practice recommendations that were the most current with the strongest level of evidence available at the time this activity was approved. Since clinical research is on going, AAFP recommends that learners verify sources and review these and other recommendations prior to implementation into practice.

CE Credit Designation

• Nurse Practitioners This activity has been evaluated and approved by the Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health for 14.0 contact hours of continuing education, which includes 10.7 pharmacology hours. Each participant should claim only those contact hours that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. Offering no. 07-22. The California BRN number for this program will be CEP-13411.
• Physician’s Assistants The American Academy of Physician Assistants accepts Prescribed credit from the AAFP
• Nurses This continuing nursing education activity has been approved by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been assigned approval code 6XTNPU-07. Each session grants 1.1 contact hours for a maximum of 13.2 contact hours.

Faculty

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Identifying and Resolving Conflicts of Interest

The FBHC requires all planning committee members, faculty, teachers, authors, and staff of a CME activity to identify all relevant financial relationships that benefit the individual and his or her spouse or partner in any financial amount within the past 12 months. Such relationships may create the opportunity to affect the content of CME regarding the products or services of the commercial interest.

The FBHC has created the FBHC Committee to Identify and Resolve Conflicts of Interest, which reviews Faculty and Staff Disclosure Statements, identifies and resolves conflicts of interest, and determines the level of participation of planning committee members, faculty members, teachers, and authors.

FBHC Faculty and Staff Disclosure Policy

The Foundation for Better Health Care will disclose to participants the existence of any relevant financial relationships between faculty members, FBHC staff members, and the staffs of a Joint Sponsor and/or Educational Partner (when applicable), who planned, authored, contributed to, and/or reviewed the content of this activity, and any commercial interest discussed in this educational activity. Disclosure will occur prior to the presentation(s), either through oral communication to the audience by the moderator or chair, or written communication in the syllabus or handout material.

FBHC Disclosure

The FBHC reserves the right to substitute speakers and modify the program without notice, and will not be liable for any costs incurred by attendees as a result of Forum cancellation, including but not limited to airfare, hotel, meals, or other incidental expenses.

The FBHC does not endorse specific products of any pharmaceutical concern.

Cancellation/Substitution Policy

The FBHC will not issue refunds. If you must cancel, you may substitute another person in your place. You must make the substitution in writing to ExpoTrac, PO Box 1280, Woonsocket, RI 02895, or by fax at (401) 765-6677.

Grantors
A complete list of grantors will be provided at a later date.