Continuing Education

CEI's Continuing Education Institutes
CE Continuing Education Scientific Sessions

The 2007 APHA Annual Meeting offers professionals and practitioners the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and exchange information on best practices, latest research and new trends in public health and provides more educational offerings in public health than any other event. Registrants may earn continuing professional education (CE -- contact hours credits) for specific professional disciplines.

Hundreds of scientific sessions will be approved for continuing education contact hour credits for CHES, CME and CNE.. Consult the online program after August 23 to view abstracts, learning objectives, faculty disclosure and updated information on approvals by CE type.

2006 CE Evaluation - If you registered for CE Credit, online evaluations of all sessions you attended must be completed by December 4, 2006.

Annual Meeting Theme - Politics, Policy and Public Health
The 2007 APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition theme will explore the critical interactions between the political process and public health policy process, as tools to ensure the public’s health.

Educational Objectives -

• To define the roles of the public health community in responding to the influences of physical, economic and social environments.
• To identify lessons learned and best practices in addressing general public health issues.
• To increase information about and general awareness of public health issues and how they are affected by immediate world factors.
• To enrich the work experiences of public health practitioners by introducing new skills and improving existing competencies.
• To provide both formal and informal opportunities for attendees to share ideas, information and experiences, and to promote alliances and networking to address public health issues.

Target Audience - Policy makers, physicians, social workers, health educators, public and environmental health professionals, state, county, and local health agency officials and staff; nurses and nurse practitioners, health care providers, and staff including those in schools, managed care, and academe.

Policy on Faculty and Sponsor Disclosure - It is the policy of APHA that the program planners, presenters, moderators and organizers disclose real or apparent conflicts of interest relating to their participation in the educational component of the Annual Meeting. They must also disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved (off-label) or experimental uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Specific disclosure will be made in the online program, the hard copy program and at the beginning of each educational Institute or scientific session.

Pre-Convention Continuing Education Institutes (CEI's)

Continuing Education Institutes are half or full-day Institutes that provide an in-depth learning experience in the latest public health trends and topics. The Institutes will be held on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4, 2007 immediately prior to the start of the APHA Annual Meeting Exposition.

To attend the CEI's, a separate registration fee is required. All Institutes are approved for CME, CHES and Nursing contact hour credits.  Click in the CEI # below for a full description of each Institute, including learning objectives, faculty, tentative agendas, and disclosure information. Half-day Institutes last 3.5 hours with two 15-minute breaks for a total of 3 contact hours. Full-day Institutes are the equivalent of two half-days and therefore equal 6 contact hours.

Continuing Education (CE) - Accreditation

2006 CE Evaluation - If you registered for CE Credit, online evaluations of all sessions you attended must be completed by December 4, 2006.

APHA is an accredited provider of continuing education for Health Education, Medicine and Nursing.

Total CEUs available to registrants vary by CE type since all types do not approve the full program. For a full schedule of approved activities, the maximum daily totals would be as follows:

Continuing Education Fees have been drastically reduced so that more registrants can take advantage of this valuable opportunity. For only $50, registrants can earn up to 40 credit hours. An online session evaluation is required for each session you attend and can be submitted from the comfort of your home after the meeting or on site at the CE Evaluation Center. Evaluations must be completed no later than December 3, 2007.

Continuing Education Statements - APHA has found that the continuing education component of its Annual Meeting is compliant with the accreditation criteria of each of the following accrediting bodies. For further information, refer to the printed Annual Meeting program tab labeled Continuing Education, or contact the education staff at 202-777-2523.

Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) - The American Public Health Association (APHA) is accredited by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc., to sponsor continuing education for Certified Health Education Specialists. The APHA Annual Meeting is a designated program/activity for the CHES to receive Category 1 contact hour credits in health education. The 90-minute scientific sessions earn 1.5 CHES Hours.

Continuing Medical Education (CME) - The American Public Health Association (APHA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The APHA designated this educational activity for a maximum of 37.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The 90-minute scientific sessions earn 1.5 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM (CME Hours).

Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) - The APHA/PHN Section is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

CE Accreditation Compliance: Continuing Education information is online and some is duplicated in the hardcopy program plus the program has additional CE information. See the Continuing Education tab in the Final Program for more information.

Please note: The Online Program includes:
1) Learning objectives
2) Agenda
2) Disclosure of conflict of interest and commercial support statements
3) Abstract/Proposal
4) Presenter, planner, moderator and organizer information.

All this information is accessible online. Abstracts/Proposals of interest can be printed out in advance of the meeting. Due to high printing costs and environmental concerns, the printed proposal volume is no longer produced. Please take advantage of new Web technology to plan ahead -- try the Personal Scheduler to help you map out the sessions and events that you would like to attend, print out individual abstracts, use the powerful search engine to help you identify sessions of interest.  The Online Program can also be accessed onsite from i-Communicate at the Washington Convention Center.