The AAFP is sponsoring a $1.2 million initiative to help family physicians prevent heart disease in patients and take even better care of those who already have it.
In the coming months, Annual Clinical Focus: The Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease will provide AAFP members with free and reduced-price CME materials on heart disease prevention and treatment. In addition, other regular-price CME materials on cardiovascular topics will be developed and offered by the AAFP.
"This new program is tremendously exciting because it enables the Academy to provide members with state-of-the-art information on a clinical topic that every family physician must deal with," says Norman Kahn, MD, AAFP Education Division director.
One of the first offerings related to the Annual Clinical Focus is a Home Study Self-Assessment clinical update on office-based physical activity counseling, which will be available to HSSA subscribers beginning this month. For more information on subscribing to the Home Study program, contact (800) 274-2237, ext. 5298.
The initiative's official kickoff will be at the 1997 Scientific Assembly in September in Chicago. Four CME offerings at the Assembly will deal with cardiovascular topics. After the Assembly, the initiative's "core" offerings--monographs on heart disease prevention and the complications of coronary artery disease from American Family Physician and the AAFP Video CME program--will be mailed free to all AAFP members. A related CME video will be available at a reduced price upon request.
The initiative's six corporate supporters are: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Novartis, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, Wyeth Ayerst, and Pfizer.