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AAP News Vol. 28 No. 8 August 2007, p. 47
© 2007 American Academy of Pediatrics
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PREP courses focus on intensive review of pediatrics, adolescent medicine
Fast-track your preparations for certification examinations with 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 Review of Pediatrics," Sept.
15-19 in Philadelphia.
These CME programs are designed to help pediatricians prepare for the
American Board of Pediatrics' Program for Maintenance of Certification in
Pediatrics secure examination.
Co-sponsored by the AAP Section on Adolescent Health and the Society for
Adolescent Medicine, AM PREP includes illustrated lectures and concurrent
sessions to enhance knowledge and experience in 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 to Know and
Eating Disorders, with Mark Warren, M.D., M.P.H.;
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth with
Mark L. Rubenstein, M.D.;
- Tackling Adolescent Obesity in the Office Setting: Evaluation and
Management Strategies and Bariatric Surgery for Extreme Adolescent
Obesity: What's the Skinny? with Stavra 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 Pediatrics I and II, with Theodore
Atkinson III, M.D., FAAP, and Cynthia Field, M.D., FAAP;
- Emergency Medicine/Critical Care/Injuries & Poisoning, with
Joel Fein, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP, FAAP;
- Gastrointestinal Disorders, with Carlo Di Lorenzo, M.D.;
- General Pediatrics 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 &Urologic Disorders/Fluid & Electrolyte Metabolism,
with Anne 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 1 credits for
PREP The Course and 26 AMA PRA Category 1 credits for AM PREP.
