CEUs and CMEs
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Continuing Medical Education (CMEs) are available for several different professions, for some or all of the sessions included in the program for this conference. Click on the links below for more details on the requirements and process for obtaining these credits for your profession.
Physicians and Nurses
The following session at the conference is available for CMEs for Physicians and Nurses
(Category 1 CME):
Thursday, January 26th from 8:30am-3:30pm
Promoting Healthy Eating and Active Living Through Improvements in the Built Environment: What Health Professionals Need to Know and What They Can Do
Click here for the Syllabus (PDF) for this workshop
Target Audience-Clinicians and Health Educators interested in to influencing community growth policies in a way that promotes health.
Overall Conference Objectives
At the end of this course participants should be able to:
- Articulate concepts of smart growth and built environments
- Describe the relationship between features of the built environment and health
- List sustainable growth policies and describe their economic, environmental, health and social implications
- Identify opportunities for health care personnel to influence community growth policies in a way that promotes health
Accreditation and Credit Statement
The Kaiser Permanente National CME Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Kaiser Permanente National CME Program designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6 category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Continuing Medical Education is acceptable for meeting RN continuing education requirements, as long as the course is Category 1, and has been taken within the appropriate time frames. When completing the renewal form or the online CE section, under the section labeled "Provider Number," you will need to enter CME Category 1, instead of a BRN Provider Number.
Planning Committee
Eric France, MD-Chair, Colorado Permanente Medical Group
Sandy Stenmark, MD-Colorado Permanente Medical Group
Loel Soloman, PhD-Kaiser Health Plan Program Offices, CA
Michele Kelso Warren - Program Director, Local Government Commission, CA
Judy Corbett-Executive Director, Local Government Commission, CA
Tyler Norris-President, Community Initiatives, CO
The planning committee members have no relationships with a pharmaceutical or industrial concern which might pose a potential, apparent or real conflict of interest with regard to the planning of this activity.
Faculty Disclosure
Kaiser Permanente requires that faculty participating in a National CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship with a pharmaceutical or industrial concern which might pose a potential, apparent or real conflict of interest with regard to the faculty's contribution to the program.
Funding
The conference is supported through educational grants from Kaiser Permanente and the Local Government Commission of California.
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Architects
Accreditation for architects, landscape architects and planners will also be available. For more information, please contact ConferenceInfo1@outreach.psu.edu
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