FP Report -- September 1998 Assembly to kick off 1999 Annual Clinical Focus
The Academy's 1999 Annual Clinical Focus -- Management and Prevention of the Complications of Diabetes -- will kick off with full fanfare Sept. 15 at the Annual Assembly in San Francisco. The ACF is an educational initiative designed to bring members state-of-the-art information on a specific subject area each year.
A news conference that morning will feature AAFP President Neil Brooks, M.D., as well as other leaders, FPs and a representative from the American Diabetes Association. To help raise awareness of the disease, diabetes risk-assessment questionnaires will be distributed outside the convention center and other areas around the city and published in a San Francisco Chronicle ad.
CME programs on the ACF topic will be offered at the Assembly and throughout the coming year.
FPs at Assembly also will have an opportunity to pick up a free Video CME program titled "Preventing the Microvascular Complications of Diabetes," which includes the video, syllabus and post-test. The syllabus will be distributed in November -- National Diabetes Month -- to all AAFP members, who will then be able to purchase the video.
Other components of the 1999 ACF program include a monograph titled Management of Diabetes, articles in AAFP publications, a CD-ROM of ACF core program elements, topics relating to ACF in several national CME courses, and many additional elements including other Video CME programs, monographs, regional symposia, chapter lecture series and an outcomes study.
Stephen Spann, M.D., of Houston, ACF medical director, said FPs will glean a great deal of helpful information from the diabetes ACF. "We have some exciting CME offerings, both at the national meeting and regionally," he said. "Diabetes is a very prevalent chronic disease in our society with a large burden of illness and health care costs. We need to do a better job of taking care of our diabetic patients and controlling their blood sugars so we can prevent complications of the disease and improve their clinical outcomes."
The 1999 Annual Clinical Focus program was developed in cooperation with the American Diabetes Association and is supported by grants from Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Eli Lilly and Company, Bayer Corporation, Parke-Davis, Knoll Pharmaceutical Company and Schering Laboratories.
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