FP Report -- September 1999
Mental Health 2000: Annual Clinical Focus
The Academy's Annual Clinical Focus for the coming year -- Mental Health 2000 -- will kick off Sept. 17 at the Annual Assembly in Orlando, Fla. The ACF is an educational initiative designed to bring members state-of-the-art information about a specific subject area each year.
A news conference that morning will feature AAFP President Lanny Copeland, M.D., of Albany, Ga.; ACF Medical Director Stephen Spann, M.D., of Houston; and other leaders in the mental health field.
CME programs for Mental Health 2000 will be offered at Assembly and throughout the coming year. An ACF Web site -- at http://www.aafp.org/acf/ -- will host a mental health e-mail discussion group beginning Jan. 1.
Other components of Mental Health 2000 include monographs, patient education handouts, articles in AAFP publications, a CD-ROM of ACF program elements at the end of the ACF year, and additional elements such as a chapter lecture series, a plenary lecture at the Conference on Patient Education and programs at the Family Practice Board Reviews.
Family physicians at the Annual Assembly may pick up a free copy of the Mental Health 2000 Video CME program "Prevention and Early Detection of Mental Illness," obtain a copy of the ACF 1998 CD-ROM "Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease," and order the ACF 1999 CD-ROM "Management and Prevention of the Complications of Diabetes."
Mental Health 2000 was developed in cooperation with the National Institute of Mental Health, American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and National Mental Health Association. The 2000 ACF is supported by more than $1.5 million in educational grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Schering Laboratories/Key Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly & Co., Janssen Pharmaceutica Products L.P. and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1999 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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