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Continuing Education Units
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, February 8, 2007 from 8:30am-4:30pm
Promoting Healthy Eating and Active Living Through Improvements in the Built Environment: What Health Professionals Need to Know and What They Can Do
Target Audience-Physicians, Nurses, Dieticians, Health Educators and other health professionals interested in to influencing community growth policies in a way that promotes health.
Overall Learning Objectives
At the end of this course participants should be able to:
- To describe the connection between features of the built environment and health.
- To identify messages to use with patients and their families to talk about how to incorporate physical activity into everyday life.
- To identify effective communication strategies for working with decision makers and local elected officials on smart growth and built environment issues.
- To identify opportunities for health providers to influence community design and the built environment to promote health.
- Identify 1-2 health providers in their region who are also interested/engaged in these issues.
Accreditation and Credit Statements
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 5 AMA Category I CME credits (TM). Physicians should claim credit only for those sessions in which they participated.
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.
Faculty Disclosure
Kaiser Permanente requires that faculty participating in national CME activities disclose to the audience any relationship with a pharmaceutical or industrial concern that might pose a potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest with regard to the faculty's contribution to the program.
Funding
The course is supported through educational grants from Kaiser Permanente and the Local Government Commission of California.
Planning Committee
- Judy Corbett, Local Government Commission
- Esteban Cruz, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Southern CA Permanente Medical Group
- Eric France, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Colorado Permanente Medical Group
- Scott Gee, MD, Northern California Permanente Medical Group
- Mark Horton, MD, State Public Health Officer, CA Department of Health Services
- Christine Maulhardt, MPH, California Medical Association Foundation
- Edward Phillips, MD, American College of Sports Medicine
- Amy Porter, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Southern CA Permanente Medical Group
- Loel Solomon, PhD, Kaiser Permanente, Program Office
- Roberta Tinajero, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California
- Elisa Wong, MPH, Kaiser Permanente, Program Office
- Phil Wu, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Permanente Medical Group
Landscape Architects
Accreditation for landscape architects will also be available. For more information,
please contact Michele Warren at the LGC, mkwarren@lgc.org.
Planners (AICP only)
AICP members who attend the New Partners Conference may log in their credits
for attendance, after the event, by logging in at the AICP
Continuing Professional Development page (www.planning.org/cpdp).
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