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.

Release Date: 2/14/2019

Expiration Date: 6/20/2025

Revised Date: 5/22/2019

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

Health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, will acquire tools and information to assist in providing student-centered care advisement and mentoring. The learning module will provide knowledge on career advising and mentoring, while demonstrating how the PCCAMP online tool can support the clinician.

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

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the Connecticut Area Health Education Center. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the 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

The activity director, planners, nor Dr. Gould, Dr. Dudley, Dr. Henderson or Cynthia Lord, PA-C, have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of these presentations.

None of the speakers will be discussing the off-labeled use of any product.

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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