PREP courses focus on intensive review of pediatrics, adolescent medicine
Fast-track your preparations for certification examinationswith two AAP
continuing medical education (CME) courses in September:"AM PREP: An
Intensive Review of Adolescent Medicine," Sept.2-8, in Savannah, Ga.,
and "PREP The Course: An Intensive Reviewof Pediatrics," Sept.
15-19 in Philadelphia.
These CME programs are designed to help pediatricians preparefor the
American Board of Pediatrics' Program for Maintenanceof Certification in
Pediatrics secure examination.
Co-sponsored by the AAP Section on Adolescent Health and theSociety for
Adolescent Medicine, AM PREP includes illustratedlectures and concurrent
sessions to enhance knowledge and experiencein promoting better adolescent
health care.
Course highlights include:
Substance Abuse — Hot Topic, with Ximena Sanchez-Samper,
M.D.;
Vaccines: What's New and What's Coming, with Mary Anne Jackson,
M.D.,FAAP;
Primary Care Docs and Psychotropics: What You Need toKnow and
EatingDisorders, with Mark Warren, M.D., M.P.H.;
Gay,Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth with
MarkL. Rubenstein, M.D.;
Tackling Adolescent Obesity in the OfficeSetting: Evaluationand
Management Strategies and BariatricSurgery for ExtremeAdolescent
Obesity: What's the Skinny? withStavra A. Xanthankos,M.D., M.S.,
FAAP;
Contraceptives Update,with Susan M. Coupey, M.D., FAAP; and
Motivational Interviewing,with Patricia K. Kokotailo, M.D.,
M.P.H.,FAAP.
Educational formats for PREP The Course include lectures, case
presentations,panel discussions, visual diagnoses and pre-/post-test
assessment.Course highlights are:
Adolescent Health/Gynecology/Substance Abuse, with Martin Fisher,
M.D.,FAAP;
Allergy & Immunology, with John M. Kelso, M.D.,FAAAAI,
FAAP;
Cardiovascular Disorders, with Candace L. Gibbin,M.D., M.S.P.H.,
FACC,FAAP;
Developmental/Behavioral PediatricsI and II, with Theodore
AtkinsonIII, M.D., FAAP, and CynthiaField, M.D., FAAP;
Emergency Medicine/Critical Care/Injuries& Poisoning, with
JoelFein, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP, FAAP;
Gastrointestinal Disorders, with Carlo Di Lorenzo, M.D.;
GeneralPediatrics and Sports Medicine, with Nancy Spector,M.D.,
FAAP,and Henry H. Bernstein, D.O., FAAP;
Genetics & Dysmorphology,with Cynthia J. Curry, M.D., FACMG,
FAAP;
Renal &UrologicDisorders/Fluid & Electrolyte Metabolism,
withAnne P. Guillot,M.D., FAAP; and
Respiratory Disorders, with Craig M. Schramm,M.D.
Participants can earn a maximum of 37.25 AMA PRA Category 1credits for
PREP The Course and 26 AMA PRA Category 1 creditsfor AM PREP.
