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Electronic CME tops list of new resources
Electronic CME options, a CME monograph on HIV and a book on rural practice -- these are some of AAFP's new resources that can help you and your practice.
Assembly CD-ROM. For the first time, you can obtain CME via a CD-ROM presenting main-stage lectures from an AAFP Assembly.
The new CD-ROM features nine of the top lectures at the 1997 Assembly, with topics ranging from fibromyalgia to congestive heart failure to physician-assisted death. For each lecture, you can view slides while listening to the presenter. The post-test is interactive -- when you select a wrong answer, the test sends you back to the correct answer in the lecture.
The CD-ROM, "Lecture Highlights of the 1997 AAFP Scientific Assembly," is approved for up to 10 hours of Prescribed credit. Item #R045, it costs AAFP members $99.
HIV Monograph. The AAFP Home Study Self-Assessment program, which develops CME materials for subscribers, is making the new monograph HIV Infection available to all who request it. The monograph provides current treatment information and may be used to obtain five hours of Prescribed credit. The monograph, item #R291, costs members $25.
Online CME quizzes. Clinical quizzes from American Family Physician now appear on the AAFP's World Wide Web site. Visit http://www.aafp.org/afp/afpquiz.html to take the online clinical quiz, check your answers electronically, review the article and then report the quiz for CME credit.
In addition, CME quizzes from Family Practice Management are accessible online at http://www.aafp.org/fpm/fpmquiz.html on the Web.
E/M documentation pocket guide. A handy pocket guide will help you and your colleagues follow Medicare's revised documentation guidelines for evaluation and management services. The guidelines take effect July 1. The pocket guide (item #R557), developed by FPM, costs members $5 apiece for fewer than 10 copies, $2 apiece for 10-24 copies, and $1.50 apiece for 25 or more copies. FPM's monograph Mastering Medicare's Docu-mentation Guidelines (item #R574) may be available by early April.
Rural family practice book. Is country life calling you? If so, a 44-page book, recently revised, might help you find your niche. Rural Family Practice: You Can Make a Difference shares the insights of rural family physicians. For example, Teresa Heavner, M.D., of Hayesville, N.C., says, "My front office staff grew up in this community and know, or know of, most of my patients. I often see several generations ... the extended family."
The book lists questions to ask about the prospective practice, the medical community, the hospital and your own preferences. Item #R717, the book costs members $7.50.
Tar Wars Talk. This quarterly newsletter features information about the Academy's tobacco education program for grade school children, including spotlights on Tar Wars activities in various states. Tar Wars Talk presents success stories, tips, research and other news. To request the newsletter, call Tom Stewart in the AAFP Scientific Activities Division at (800) 274-2237, Ext. 5538.
You can order most of these items from the AAFP order department at (800) 944-0000.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1998 by American Academy of Family Physicians.