CME Outfitters Announces psychCME TV 2005 Season Premiere: "Wakefulness and Excessive Sleepiness: A Look at the Relationship and Its Impact on Our Patients"
This continuing education activity premieres Wednesday, January 26, 2005, from 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. ET, and will focus on better understanding the relationship between wakefulness and excessive sleepiness and developing treatment strategies to maximize patient outcomes.
Rockville, MD (PRWEB) January 6, 2005 -- CME Outfitters, LLC, nationally
accredited provider of multidisciplinary medical education programming and
related healthcare communications services, is pleased to announce an upcoming
live and interactive evidence-based CE activity titled "Wakefulness and
Excessive Sleepiness: A Look at the Relationship and Its Impact on Our
Patients." Offered as a live satellite broadcast, webcast, and telephone
audioconference premiering Wednesday, January 26, 2005, from 12:00 p.m.–1:00
p.m. ET, the activity will focus on better understanding the relationship
between wakefulness and excessive sleepiness and developing treatment strategies
to maximize patient outcomes. The recorded satellite broadcast will re-air from
3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. ET; the archived webcast and telephone audioconference will
be available shortly after the live broadcast.
Participation in this
activity is free, as is obtaining a CE certificate; however, registration is
required. Three forms of registration are accepted:
Fax: View the activity
details page at http://www.psychCME.net/cmea.asp?ID=105, print and complete
the activity details form, and fax to 240.243.1033
Online: Visit the
psychCME TV page at http://www.psychCME.net
Phone: Call 877.CME.PROS
(877.263.7767)
Statement of Need:
Sufficient sleep is not an absolute
entity based on quantitative hours of rest, but rather a measure of the rest and
restoration experienced by each individual. Epidemiological data suggests that
approximately 10% of individuals suffer from some form of sleep disturbance.
Insomnia is the most prevalent form of sleep disturbance, affecting
approximately 34% of the general population. Conversely, excessive sleepiness is
estimated to affect approximately 31% of the adult population. Excessive
sleepiness can have a myriad of negative socioeconomic consequences, from
diminished functioning at home and poor professional performance to increased
incidence of accidents. In this evidence-based psychCME TV activity, the experts
will look at the relationship between wakefulness and excessive sleepiness and
offer tools and strategies for achieving positive outcomes in
patients.
Faculty:
Paul P. Doghramji, MD, FAAFP
Brookside Family
Practice
Pottstown, PA
Thomas Roth, PhD
Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Director of Sleep
Disorders and Research Center
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit,
MI
psychCME Chair and Moderator
Prakash S. Masand, MD
Consulting
Professor of Psychiatry
Duke University Medical Center
Durham,
NC
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this CE activity, participants
should be able to:
• Define wakefulness and excessive sleepiness.
•
Compare and contrast normal sleep and sleep disturbances that impact
wakefulness.
• Develop screening tools for the recognition of excessive
sleepiness.
• Implement treatment regimens that utilize pharmacological and
nonpharmacological strategies to achieve resolution of symptoms of excessive
sleepiness.
Target Audience:
Physicians, physician assistants, nurse
practitioners, nurses, psychologists, social workers, certified case managers,
pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals with an interest in mental
health.
Credit Information:
CME Credit (Physicians):
CME
Outfitters, LLC, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CME
Outfitters, LLC, designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0
category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician
should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the
activity.
Note to Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts Category I credit from
AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA Category I CME credit for the PRA
from organizations accredited by ACCME.
CNE Credit (Nurses):
This
Educational Activity is presented by CME Outfitters, LLC, which has been
approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses
Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center's Commission on Accreditation. It has been assigned code 5UYSJZ-PRV-0449.
1.2 contact hours (Pharmacology)
CEP Credit (Psychologists):
CME
Outfitters, LLC, is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer
continuing education for psychologists. CME Outfitters, LLC, maintains
responsibility for the program. 1.0 CE credits
NASW Credit (Social
Workers):
This program was approved by the National Association of Social
Workers (provider #886407722) for 1 continuing education contact hour.
CCMC Credit (Certified Case Managers):
This program has been approved
for 1 hour by the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC).
CPE
Credit (Pharmacists):
CME Outfitters, LLC, is accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
1.2 contact hours (0.12 CEUs)
Universal Program Number: 376-999-05-003-L01
(live presentation) 376-999-05-003-H01 (recorded programs)
To receive
credit, participants must review all activity materials in their entirety, score
70% or above on a post-test, and fully complete and return both the credit
request form and activity evaluation. A certificate or statement of credit will
be mailed within 4–6 weeks to all who successfully complete these
requirements.
Commercial Support:
CME Outfitters, LLC, gratefully
acknowledges an educational grant from Cephalon, Inc., in support of this CE
activity.
About psychCME:
psychCME is a collection of evidence-based
CME/CE activities available in formats designed to offer maximum convenience.
These include psychCME TV (satellite television), psychCME TALK (telephone
audioconferences), psychCME REPORTS (newsletters), and psychCME CLASSIC (live
hotel-based meetings). Most psychCME activities are also available online and in
a variety of enduring materials. psychCME is a collaborative effort from
psychCME, Inc., and CME Outfitters, LLC. For more information on psychCME,
please visit http://www.psychcme.net.
About CME Outfitters:
CME
Outfitters is a full service healthcare communications agency providing
continuing education content development, production, marketing, accreditation,
and project management services to the healthcare industry. Among its many
collaborative ventures, CME Outfitters enjoys an exclusive role in producing,
certifying, and supporting the popular psychCME series of educational activities
originally developed at Duke University Medical Center. For more information on
CME Outfitters, including a complete calendar of its free award-winning
educational activities, please visit http://www.cmeoutfitters.com, or call 877.CME.PROS
(877.263.7767).
To subscribe to CME Outfitters' weekly e-newsletter
"psychCME EXTRA," visit http://www.cmeoutfitters.com and click on "Register for
Updates."
Contact: Christopher Perez
CME Outfitters,
LLC
240.243.1303 direct
240.243.1033 fax
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