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Continuing Education
Attendees of the AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium may earn valuable continuing education credits by participating in scientific sessions, tutorials, and workshops.
Physician Continuing Education
AMIA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. AMIA designates this continuing medical education for up to 26.25 hours of Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spends in the educational activity.
Nursing Contact Hours
Nursing contact hours will be provided by the University of Maryland School of Nursing's Office of Professional Development. In order to earn contact hours, please sign in at the registration desk each day to receive contact hours for this conference. Please complete the evaluation provided after you attend each session. Before you leave the conference, drop the evaluation form off at the registration desk. The total number of hours for tutorials, workshops and the symposium is 26.25.
The University of Maryland School of Nursing's Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.
AMIA 2007 Objectives
The objectives of the AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium are:
- To demonstrate and discuss issues related to the development, application, and evaluation of information technologies in medicine and health care.
- To provide a comprehensive portfolio of presentations that detail work, progress, and challenges in theoretical and applied information systems development.
- To improve the knowledge and skill of attendees with respect to using, developing, and managing information technologies as they relate to medicine and health care.
- To present research and applied methodologies and results in the broad field of medical informatics.
- To promote information exchange among attendees.
Who Should Attend
Attendees of the AMIA Symposia come from a variety of venues, notably from some of the most technologically innovative health care facilities in the world.
An anticipated attendance of 2,000 will include physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and other clinicians; health information technology professionals; computer scientists and systems developers; policy makers; biomedical engineers and bioinformaticians; consultants and vendor representatives; medical librarians; academic researchers and scientists; and other professionals involved in the collection and dissemination of health information.
Disclosure
Before the program, all faculty will disclose the existence of any financial interest and/or other relationships they may have with the manufacturer or manufacturers of any commercial product or products to be discussed during their presentation. This includes any honoraria/expenses, grants, consultant role, speaker’s bureau membership, stock ownership, or any other special relationship. AMIA includes a disclosure list with the on-site registration materials.
Forms
AMIA includes registration and evaluation forms for continuing education credit in the on-site registration materials. Attendees may drop completed forms in a specially marked box in the registration area or mail them to the AMIA office at:
AmericanMedical Informatics Association
4915 St. Elmo Avenue, Suite 401
Bethesda,MD 20814
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