[ RadSafe ] FW: COCA The Radiation Event Medical Management Web Portal - A Novel Resource for Health Care Providers Conference Call 1/15/08 @ 1 PM ET - now with continuing education credits!

Thu Jan 10 14:48:32 CST 2008

Forwarded FYI

Bob Yoss
ryoss at mcw.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Moulder, John 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:28 PM
To: Martz, Marcum; Yoss, Robert
Subject: FW: COCA The Radiation Event Medical Management Web Portal - A
Novel Resource for Health Care Providers Conference Call 1/15/08 @ 1 PM
ET - now with continuing education credits!

Should be interesting.

You might want to put the announcement out to RadSafe and to the
Radiation
Safety Directors mailing list.

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From: Cullen Case [mailto:ccase at nmdp.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: CDC Clinician Communication Reminder: COCA Conference Call
1/15/08 @ 1 PM ET - now with continuing education credits !

All-

The CDC conference call below should be of interest.  One of our
partners (Dr. Bader) from the National Library of Medicine will be
speaking about "The Radiation Event Medical Management Web Portal - A
Novel Resource for Health Care Providers".

I hope you have time to listen in.  At a minimum the presentation will
be available for download Monday.  Details are below.

Respectfully,

-C

Cullen Case

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Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (CDC) wrote:

 January 9, 2008

Continuing Education Credits (CME, CNE, CEU and CHES)
will now be offered for COCA Conference Calls!!!

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

COCA Conference Call -

TITLE:  The Radiation Event Medical Management Web Portal - A Novel
Resource for Health Care Providers
SPEAKERS: CAPT Judith L. Bader, MD and CMDR Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, MD

DATE: Tuesday, January 15, 2008
TIME: 1:00 PM ET - 2:00 PM ET

CALL-IN NUMBER: 888-889-4952
PASSCODE: 3679908

Participants will want to have an internet connection available for this
call as we will explore the REMM Web Portal together.
http://www.remm.nlm.gov/ <http://www.remm.nlm.gov/>

The PowerPoint Presentation will be available on the COCA website by
Monday:  http://www.emergency.cdc.gov/coca/callinfo.asp
<http://www.emergency.cdc.gov/coca/callinfo.asp>

OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of the call, participants should be able to:
1. Identify the various types of radiation mass casualty events
2. Distinguish between radiation exposure and radiation contamination
3. Rapidly locate resources needed to assist in the diagnosis,
quantification, and treatment of radiation exposure
4. Rapidly locate resources needed to assist in the diagnosis,
quantification, and treatment of radiation contamination
5. Describe the recommended procedures for external decontamination
6. List several isotopes of concern in a radiation mass casualty event
7. Identify available medical countermeasures for use in victims of a
radiation mass casualty event

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

Those who participate in the COCA Conference Calls and who wish to
receive CE credit and will complete the online evaluation by Feb. 14,
2008 will use the course code EC1265. Those who wish to receive CE
credit and will complete the online evaluation between Feb. 15, 2008 and
Jan. 15, 2009 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: CDC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for
physicians. CDC designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1
Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of
their participation in the activity.

CNE: This activity for 1.0 contact hours is provided by CDC, which is
accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditations.

CEU: CDC has been reviewed and approved as an authorized provider by the
International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET),
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CEU to participants who successfully complete this program.

CHEC: CDC 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(s) in health education. CDC
provider number GA0082.

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This presentation does not involve the unlabeled use of a product or
product under investigational use.

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