Continuing Medical Education (CME) Opportunities
If your organization or company is interested in posting CME opportunities, please contact NAPA President at elchevo@gmail.com
Attention Navy PAs - if you know of something which should be added here, please send to me at fleetadmiralron@hotmail.com
AAPA CME Calendar: The American Academy of Physician Assistants maintains a rolling CME calendar of CME opportunities - many presented by state and specialty PA organizations.
Need Free CME? The following links offer free continuing medical education opportunities, and I have personally logged in over 100 Cat 1 CME hours using these:
Other CME opportunities:
Navy and Marine Corps Combat & Operational Stress Control Conference 2012 - Registration opens February 8. Conference Dates: May 22 - 24. Pre-conference Workshops: May 21.Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego. Click here for COSC Flyer.
MHCC - Military Healthcare Convention & Conference (MHCC). An annual event in San Antonio each June, and San Diego added in Dec 2011. They also have a Spec Ops Convention in San Diego in March 2012. For additional information, go to www.militaryhealthcareconvention.com.
SAPA - The annual Society of Army PAs "Best Bang for Your Buck" CME Conference is held every April in Fayetteville. Next conference is 23-27 April 2012.
SAFPA - SAFPA continues to have their annual CME each November in San Antonio at the Drury Inn on the Riverwalk.
CME for Pre-Deployment Courses:
NCCPA grants Category 1 CME for successful completion of ABLS-P (7 hrs), ATLS (19 hrs), BTLS (16 hrs), C4 (49 hrs), as well as ACLS (8-16 hrs), and BLS (6-8 hrs). For more information, go to http://www.nccpa.net.
If you know how many hours are granted for TCCC, NTTC or others you have attended, please send to fleetadmiralron@hotmail.com so this can be posted so others can have this information.
NAPA CME Coordinator - We do not have one. If you are interested, please contact NAPA President
From 2011 NAPA Email:
ALCON,
I know you are very busy and TAD/CME funds are not easy to come by. Here are some free CME opportunities I wanted to share with you. If you are active duty, reserves, or "retired" but employed by DoD or VA, you should be able to get in on the following:
1. SAFPA CME VTC/VTT re-broadcast. Basically, this is the annual Society of Air Force PAs annual CME held in San Antonio each November. It was all recorded with high-quality video & audio and the Army Medical Department & School is going to shoot it out via VTC/VTT. The POC is Mr. Ricardo Robinson and I have attached information for you to review if you are interested in this. I have cleared with him and also with SAFPA POC - LtCol Tim Howerton, and you are encouraged to take advantage of this great opportunity if you can break away from primary workload the afternoons of 2-6 May. You will earn Cat 1 CME...without the travel & expense. All you need is a VTC/VTT person in your neck of the woods to help get you registered and take care of the technical aspects.
2011 SAFPA Satellite Agenda.doc
PA 2011 Announcement.doc
2. MHS Learn. Yes...the site you have to go to annually to knock out your HIPPA training. They have 76 Category 1 CME courses on their site and it is free for DoD/VA folks. Go to the Military Health System (MHS) Learning Portal for more information: https://mhslearn.csd.disa.mil
3. Vaccine Healthcare Network (VHC). They also have free CME for you...CEU for folks who work with/for you. Go to www.vhcinfo.org
V/r, Ron Perry
