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TOMORROW! CDC COCA Conference Call: H1N1 Pediatrics Update and Overview of CDC’s Child Care Guidance – October 7, 2009

Continuing Education Credits/Contact Hours (CME, CNE, CEU and CHES) are available for this COCA Conference Call!

COCA Conference Call:

 

H1N1 Pediatrics Update and Overview of CDC’s Child Care Guidance

Title: H1N1 Pediatrics Update and Overview of CDC’s Child Care Guidance

 

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM ET

 

Call-in number: 888-283-2960

Passcode: 7113863

 

The PowerPoint Presentation will be available on the COCA website on October 7th: http://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/callinfo.asp

The purpose of the call is to share the latest in H1N1 pediatric news and to discuss CDC Guidance on Helping Child Care and Early Childhood Programs Respond to Influenza during the 2009–2010 Influenza Season.

Objectives:

After this activity, the participants will be able to:

1. Describe the latest information related to H1N1 and pediatrics.

2. Discuss interim guidance on helping child care and early childhood programs respond to influenza during the 2009–2010 influenza season.

3. Identify potential issues as well as suggestions for additional resources that may be of benefit to health care providers.

Continuing Education guidelines require that the attendance of all who participate in COCA Conference Calls be properly documented. ALL Continuing Education credits/contact hours (CME, CNE, CEU and CECH) for COCA Conference Calls are issued online through the CDC Training & Continuing Education Online system http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/.

Those who participate in the COCA Conference Calls and who wish to receive CE credit/contact hours and will complete the online evaluation by November 6, 2009 will use the course code EC1265. Those who wish to receive CE credits/contact hours and will complete the online evaluation between November 7, 2009 and October 7, 2010 will use course code WD1265. CE certificates can be printed immediately upon completion of your online evaluation. A cumulative transcript of all CDC/ATSDR CE’s obtained through the CDC Training & Continuing Education Online System will be maintained for each user.

PURPOSE: To enhance clinicians knowledge of emerging or re-emerging threats, their effects on human populations and medical evaluation and management of these threats.

CME: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This activity provides 1 contact hour.

CEU: The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 CEU’s for this program.

CECH: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is a designated event for the CHES to receive 1 Category I contact hour in health education, CDC provider number GA0082.

DISCLAIMER:

In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use.

CDC, our planners, and our presenters wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. This presentation does not involve the unlabeled use of a product or product under investigational use.

There is no commercial support.

Please remember that if you cannot participate in the live COCA Conference Call, you can still get CE credit/contact hours! Simply download the PowerPoint and follow along with the audio file, both of which will both be posted on the coca website after the call and then complete the on-line evaluation within a year http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/.