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Electronic CME options, an E/M documentation guide and patient education brochures -- these are some of AAFP's resources developed in 1998 that can help you and your practice.
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1998 ACF. The 1998 Annual Clinical Focus on the Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease featured condition-specific learning tools. An information sheet listing the products is available, item #R583, free. The latest offering is a CD-ROM reproducing key elements of the program, item #R585, free.
HIV monograph. The AAFP Home Study Self-Assessment program is offering the monograph HIV Infection for $25 to all who request it. The monograph provides treatment information and may be used to obtain five hours of Prescribed credit, item #R291.
E/M documentation pocket guide. A handy pocket guide will help you follow Medicare's documentation guidelines for evaluation and management services. The pocket guide (item #R557), developed by Family Practice Management, costs $5.
Physician-sponsored networks guide. Are you thinking about developing or entering a physician-sponsored network? If so, request the AAFP's "Preamble and Guiding Principles for Physician-Sponsored Networks." It covers topics such as optimal health outcome for patients, family physicians' expertise in managing care and their focus on preventive health, clinical autonomy for network physicians, and the need for PSNs to demonstrate their value in order to obtain contracts with health plans, item #R737, free.
Colposcopy privileges. A new AAFP position paper, "Colposcopy by Family Physicians," is geared to helping FPs gain privileges. The paper reviews scope of practice, notes indications for colposcopy, and discusses training, proof of proficiency and privileges, item #R732, free.
Hospitalists. An informational statement prepared by the AAFP outlines the major issues of concern about the hospitalist issue and steps to address them, item #R718, free.
Assembly CD-ROM. You can obtain CME via a CD-ROM presenting some of the top main-stage lectures from last year's Assembly. "Lecture Highlights of the 1998 AAFP Scientific Assembly" is approved for up to 10 hours of Prescribed credit, item #R028, $99.
Greeting cards. The AAFP Foundation is selling holiday and all-occasion cards featuring paintings by A. Earl Mgebroff, M.D., of Yoakum, Texas. Cards can include messages or be purchased blank. Funds from the sale of the cards will go toward foundation programs. "Church" holiday cards, item #R650; "morning" holiday cards, item #R653; "all occasion" cards, item #R656, each box $20.
Academy Collection reference books. Primary care reference works, written by and for practicing FPs, are available for $24.95 each. The 10-volume set can be purchased as a unit for $199. Books already published are: Office Procedures (item #R590), Office Procedure Forms (#R591), Challenging Diagnoses (#R592) and Conditions of Aging (#R593). Over the next two years, six more titles will be added: Musculoskeletal Pain, Occupational/Environmental Medicine, Endocrine Disorders, GI Problems, Children's Health and Skin Disorders.
Patient education handouts. The revised CD-ROM "AAFP Patient Education Handouts" contains about 300 brochures, the Tar Wars coloring sheets and curriculum, teen-oriented brochures and "Let's Eat" nutrition sheets, with all material in English and Spanish, item #R1598, $175.
Colposcopy self-study. The new self-study CD-ROM program "Colposcopy for the Family Physician" includes a syllabus, video and audio instruction, a photo atlas, searchable text documents and an interactive test. It is approved for up to 11 hours of Prescribed credit, item #R293, $110.
Video CME. New video programs cover the following areas, with each program approved for one Prescribed hour and costing $17.95: Alzheimer's disease, item #R1800; chronic viral hepatitis, item #R1806; seasonal allergic rhinitis, item #R1809; macrovascular complications of type 2 diabetes, item #R1812; treatment of type 2 diabetes, item #R1815; and prevention of complications of type 2 diabetes, item #R1818.
Audio CME. Packages from recent AAFP courses cover the following content areas (also listed are the Prescribed hours you may earn, order numbers and prices): family-centered maternity care, 20.75 hours, item #R182, $295; and women's health, 25.5 hours, item #R294, $295.
Community presentations. Do you plan on telling elementary school children what it's like to be a family physician? The AAFP's elementary activity packet can help. It contains fun and educational games as well as a box of crayons, item #R204, free. You can also explain family medicine to students bound for college or medical school with the "Take Another Look at Family Practice" brochure, item #R184, free.
FMIGs. Want to help a medical student leader start a family medicine interest group? There's some step-by-step assistance in the Family Medicine Interest Group Manual, item #R103, free.
HIV Consultation. A free telephone consultation service offers a wealth of HIV information to FPs and other health care providers at (800) 933-3413.
Kit on breastfeeding. The Physician's Breastfeeding Support Kit contains guides and patient education information, item #R926, free. Resource packets. Resource packets will help you prepare for exams to earn certificates of added qualifications. Both the geriatric resource packet (item #R179, $35) and the sports medicine packet (item #R221, free) contain information about AAFP-sponsored and approved courses and materials along with bibliographies.
Computers. If you're planning to purchase or update your computer system, AAFP publications can help you make your decision. The Directory of Software Vendors for Group Practice lists and reviews software from hundreds of vendors, item #R9546, $84. The monograph How to Select a Computer System for a Family Physician's Office provides a step-by-step approach to going digital, item #R603, $10. The monograph comes with a free supplement, "Family Physicians and the Year 2000: Preventive Medicine for the Millennium Bug."
You can request these resources -- unless otherwise noted -- by calling the AAFP order department at (800) 944-0000.
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