PCCAMP Online CME 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Welcome to PCCAMP CME Online Course

Course Overview

The Primary Care Career Advising and Mentoring Program (PCCAMP) has as its mission “to stimulate student interest in primary care and reinvigorate the primary care field”. PCCAMP provides busy teaching practitioners with the tools to effectively counsel, mentor and advise health profession students about career opportunities and choices.

Earn 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™  for free.

Approval Cycle: July 1, 2022 thru June 30, 2025

This course is designed to give the participant guidance on how to use the PCCAMP website for successfully engaging in student-centered career advising and mentoring.

The course is divided into four segments, a post-test and evaluation of the activity requiring 80 minutes to complete.

1. What is PCCAMP?
2. Communication Skills: Giving and Receiving Feedback
3. Mentoring
4. Student-Centered Career Advising and Counseling
5. Post-test
6. Evaluation of activity

The first segment, What is PCCAMP?, is a video presentation on the concept of PCCAMP and provides a demonstration of the PCCAMP website. The remaining three segments include a case scenario and a series of questions that we ask you to initially consider before moving into the video presentation. The website will be demonstrated in each segment.

Target Audience

Healthcare professionals, including but not limited to physicians, nurses, dentists, Pharmacists, APRNs, and PA’s.

Method of Participation

Learners will view a webcast of slides and accompanying video and audio. To successfully earn credit, participants must complete the activity online, including a post-test and evaluation. The estimated time for completion is one hour and twenty minutes. To receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™, participants must receive a minimum score of 70% on the post-test.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this module, course participants will:

• Recognize appropriate communication skills to use in interacting with a student during advising and mentoring interactions.
• Utilize mentoring strategies to enhance interaction with students interested in primary care.
• Implement a student-centered approach to advising students through the decision process for selection of specialty.

Accreditation

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conflict of Interest Policy

All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

Disclosure

Activity Director Disclosure Statement: Petra Clark-Dufner, as the activity director, and Cecil Tengatenga, as co-activity director for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed.

Speaker/Author Statements: Drs. Bruce Gould, Robert Dudley, David Henderson and Cynthia Booth Lord, in their role as [speaker] for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed.

Drs. Bruce Gould, Robert Dudley, David Henderson and Cynthia Booth Lord will not be discussing the off-labeled, or investigational use of any product or device.

Planning Committee Statement: All member(s) of the planning committee, including the activity admin, for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed.

Commercial Support Statement: This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.

Confidentiality

All information gathered as part of this web cast activity will be treated as confidential and will not be disclosed or released in any format to any person or business that does not have a “need to know” as it relates specifically to this activity without the full and proper consent of the viewer/provider of this information.

Copyright

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