Continuing Education at the APHA Annual Meeting

2012 APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

The 2012 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA offers professionals and practitioners the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and exchange information on best practices, latest research and new trends in public health.  The Annual Meeting provides more educational offerings in public health than any other event. Registrants may earn continuing education (CE-credits) for specific professional disciplines.

Obtaining  CE Credit for CME, CNE, M/CHES, CPH
Access to the Online CE Evaluation System is generated by payment of the Access Fee. In order to receive a certificate of continuing education credit, an Online Evaluation must be completed for each session or institute attended. The CE fee covers all CE contact hour credits for both the Learning Institute courses and the Annual Meeting scientific sessions

Registrants can earn continuting education contact hour credits in Health Education (CHES and MCHES),  Nursing (CNE), Medicine (CME for physicians and non-physicians) and Public Health (CPH) during the Annual Meeting. The Continuing Education (CE) access fee is  $50 fee for the 1st discipline and $10 for each additional discipline (Example:  CME $50 + CPH $10 = $60 total).  Payment of the access fee must be made before the close of on-site registration on October 31, 2012. No refunds will be given.

Obtaining Continuing Education Credits for other Disciplines
While APHA is not an accredited provider of continuing education credits for the following professions, we provide this information to assist those who are interested in pursuing credits directly from their professional accrediting bodies:

Oral Health - Contact the Oral Health Section to obtain information on how to obtain continuing education credits for dentistry.  It is the responsibility of the individual to contact the Oral Health Section Continuing Education Coordinator.

Social Work - In selected states, the APHA Annual Meeting activity can be used towards Category 2 CE credits.  It is the responsibility of the individual to contact their state chapter to see if it applies to them.  Contact www.naswdc.org or your state chapter.

Note:  APHA is not responsible for providing continuing education credit and/or information for any discipline other than medicine, nursing, health education and public health.  You do NOT need to pay the access fee for Oral Health or Social Work. 

Scientific Session - Hundreds of scientific sessions will be awarded contact hour credits for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES), Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES), Continuing Medical Education (CME) Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) and Certified in Public Health (CPHCE).  You can earn 1.5 credits for each 90 minute scientific session.

Learning Institute Courses - For an additional cost APHA also offers Learning Institute Courses on the Saturday and Sunday prior to the Conference.  Up to 12  CE credits can be earned for attending these half or full-day courses. (Register online for LIs and/or the full conference. A separate registration fee is required) 

Educational Objectives

• To define the roles of the public health community in responding to the influences of physical, economic and social environments.
• To identify lessons learned and best practices in addressing general public health issues.
• To increase knowledge of public health issues and how they are affected by immediate world factors.
• To improve the competencies of public health practitioners through skills building.
• To increase knowledge, competence and performance for health outcomes.
Target Audience - Public health professionals, environmental and occupational health professionals, federal, state, county and local health agency officials and staff, administrators, managers, practitioners, researchers, academics, students, policy makers, and all other public health related professionals.  Certified health education specialisits, nurses and nurse practitioners,  physicians, professionals certified in public health, and professionals seeking non-physician AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM

Policy on Planner and Presenter Disclosure 

APHA strives to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its educational programs.  All planners, faculty members, moderators, discussants, panelist and presenters participating in this program have been required to disclose any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of this program.  This includes relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic.  The intent of this policy is to identify openly any conflict of interest so that the attendees may form their own judgments about the presentation with full disclosure of the facts.  In addition, faculty is expected to openly disclose any off-label, experimental and/or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentation.  Disclosures, Conflict of Interest (COI) and Resolution of COI policies are available via the website and in the printed program.

Non Endorsement and Disclaimer
As an Accredited Provider of Continuing Education (CE) Credits for Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Medicine (CME), and Public Health (CPH) the American Public Health Association Learning and Professional Development Programs (LPDP) Unit and its respective Continuing Education accrediting organizations do not endorse any products or services that are displayed or referred to in conjunction with this activity and are not responsible for the actual presentation of content during scientific sessions.  The APHA education planning committee has determined that CE sessions meet the accreditation criteria for all four disciplines.

Full program descriptions, learning objectives, faculty, tentative agendas and disclosure information for each session and Learning Institute course can be accessed at www.apha.org/meeting.

All continuing education questions can be answered by staff at the CE Booth during the annual meeting and/or by contacting: Annette Ferebee @ annette.ferebee@apha.org or 202-777-2521.