Continuing Education
13.5 Category 1 CME Credits Available
Nursing Continuing Education Credits Available
Attendees of the 2006 AMIA Spring Congress may earn valuable continuing medical education (CME) credits by participating in the conference. 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 13.5 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. Continuing education credits for nurses will be provided by Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education in the University of Maryland School of Nursing. This office is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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.
The learning objectives of the 2006 AMIA Spring Congress are:
- To demonstrate and discuss issues related to the development, application, and evaluation of information technologies in medicine and health care with respect to thematic tracks focusing on Electronic Health Record Systems in Rural and Small Practice Settings, Personal Health Records, Translational Bioinformatics, and Evaluation.
- To provide plenary, semi-plenary, and interactive breakout presentations that detail work, progress, and challenges related to the thematic tracks.
- To improve the knowledge and skill of attendees with respect to Electronic Health Record Systems in Rural and Small Practice Settings, Personal Health Records, Translational Bioinformatics, and Evaluation as they relate to medicine and health care.
- To present research and applied methodologies and results through a poster session highlighting the thematic tracks.
- To promote information exchange among attendees.
Attendees will include:
- Physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians
- Health information management and technology professionals
- Computer scientists and system developers
- Policy makers
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