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2024-25 Respiratory Virus Season Trailer

Continuing Education Credit Webinar Recordings

Preparing for the 2024-2025 Respiratory Virus Season

This webinar occurred on October 16, 20242024, and continuing education expires on December 16, 2024.

About the Webinar

The Power of Providers Initiative hosted this webinar on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Infectious disease expert Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH discussed the epidemiology of influenza, RSV and COVID-19 and summarized measures of community burden. He reviewed important mitigation strategies, vaccine recommendations and respiratory illness guidance as we head into the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season. The webinar was recorded, and continuing education is available for physicians, physician assistants, medical assistants, pharmacists and nurses.

Learning Objectives

  1. Assess the current epidemiology of influenza, RSV and COVID-19
  2. Review measures of respiratory viral community burden to guide mitigation strategies
  3. Describe updated vaccine recommendations and respiratory illness guidance

Presenters

Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH
Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization for Public Health
Seattle & King County

Continuing Education

  • There is no charge for continuing education credit.
  • Continuing education (CE) is available for physicians attending the live webinar OR watching the recording.
  • Even if you attend the live webinar or watch the recording as a group, everyone MUST register for the webinar and complete the evaluation as an individual prior to receiving CE.
  • CE expires 12/16/24.
  • After attending the live webinar, an evaluation will be sent to you in an email.
  • After watching the recording, please complete the evaluation. If you want CE credit, you must complete the evaluation.
  • A few weeks after the live webinar, we will email certificates to everyone who requested CE.
  • Around 12/16/24, we will email certificates to those who watched the recording.

Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Statement

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 Federation of State Medical Boards, the Washington Medical Commission, and the Washington State Department of Health. The Federation of State Medical Boards is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Federation of State Medical Boards designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credit Designation Statement

The Federation of State Medical Boards designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Director

Morgan Barrett, MD
Washington Medical Commission

Commercial Support

This learning activity is not funded by any commercial entity.

Disclosure Declaration

As an organization accredited by the ACCME, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) requires that the content of CME activities and related materials provide balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor. All faculty, planners, and others in a position to control continuing medical education content participating in an accredited continuing education activity are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Faculty (authors, presenters, speakers, and planners) are encouraged to provide a balanced view of therapeutic options by utilizing either generic names or other options available when utilizing trade names to ensure impartiality.

Faculty members are asked to disclose all financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies regardless of the potential relevance of each relationship to the education and of the amount. The FSMB has implemented a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to the activity. The intent of this policy is to identify potential conflicts of interest so participants can form their own judgments with full disclosure of the facts. Participants will be asked to evaluate whether the speaker’s outside interests reflect a possible bias in the planning or presentation of the activity. The speakers, course director, and planners at the Federation of State Medical Boards, have nothing to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Uses

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For additional information about approved uses, including approved indications, contraindications, and warnings, please refer to the prescribing information for each product, or consult the Physicians’ Desk Reference.

Faculty and Staff Disclosures

No speaker or persons in control of content reported intent to reference unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or products.

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural Communities: Part One

This webinar occurred on October 30, 2024 and continuing education expires on January 30, 2025.

About the Webinar

The Power of Providers Initiative hosted this webinar on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. This two-part workshop introduced rural healthcare providers to motivational interviewing (MI) and Getting to the Heart and Mind of the Matter Toolkit, which helps patients choose trustworthy sources of information and respond to brain-friendly promotional messages. These techniques can help providers have impactful vaccine interactions with patients in rural communities.

Learning Objectives

  1. Illustrate strategies to evoke and reinforce “change talk” during brief interactions with patients.
  2. Employ MI skills and strategies during patient interactions, including how to use MI to provide evidence-based information about vaccines and science media literacy.
  3. Evaluate feedback from other participants on practicing MI skills.
  4. Create a plan for how they will use the Getting to the Heart and Mind of the Matter Toolkit to assist them in their interactions with patients and health promotion efforts.

Presenters

Dr. Anya Sheftel 
Licensed psychologist and Research Assistant Professor of Special Education at Washington State University

Dr. Erica Weintraub Austin 
Professor and founding director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Media and Health Promotion Research

Continuing Education

  • There is no charge for continuing education credit.
  • Continuing education (CE) is available for physicians attending the live webinar OR watching the recording.
  • Even if you attend the live webinar or watch the recording as a group, everyone MUST register for the webinar and complete the evaluation as an individual prior to receiving CE.
  • CE expires 01/30/25.
  • After attending the live webinar, an evaluation will be sent to you in an email.
  • After watching the recording, please complete the evaluation. If you want CE credit, you must complete the evaluation.
  • A few weeks after the live webinar, we will email certificates to everyone who requested CE.
  • Around 01/30/25, we will email certificates to those who watched the recording.

Accreditation Statement

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 Federation of State Medical Boards, the Washington Medical Commission, and the Washington State Department of Health. The Federation of State Medical Boards is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Federation of State Medical Boards designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credit Designation Statement

The Federation of State Medical Boards designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Director

Morgan Barrett, MD
Washington Medical Commission
 

Commercial Support

This learning activity is not funded by any commercial entity.

Disclosure Declaration

As an organization accredited by the ACCME, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) requires that the content of CME activities and related materials provide balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor. All faculty, planners, and others in a position to control continuing medical education content participating in an accredited continuing education activity are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Faculty (authors, presenters, speakers and planners) are encouraged to provide a balanced view of therapeutic options by utilizing either generic names or other options available when utilizing trade names to ensure impartiality.

Faculty members are asked to disclose all financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies regardless of the potential relevance of each relationship to the education and of the amount. The FSMB has implemented a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to the activity. The intent of this policy is to identify potential conflicts of interest so participants can form their own judgments with full disclosure of the facts. Participants will be asked to evaluate whether the speaker’s outside interests reflect a possible bias in the planning or presentation of the activity. The speakers, course director, and planners at the Federation of State Medical Boards, have nothing to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Uses

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For additional information about approved uses, including approved indications, contraindications, and warnings, please refer to the prescribing information for each product, or consult the Physicians’ Desk Reference.

Faculty and Staff Disclosures

No speaker or persons in control of content reported intent to reference unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or products.

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural Communities: Part Two

This webinar occurred on November 13, 2024, and continuing education expires on February 13, 2024.

About the Webinar

The Power of Providers Initiative hosted this webinar on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. This two-part workshop introduced rural healthcare providers to motivational interviewing (MI) and Getting to the Heart and Mind of the Matter Toolkit, which helps patients choose trustworthy sources of information and respond to brain-friendly promotional messages. These techniques can help providers have impactful vaccine interactions with patients in rural communities.

Learning Objectives

1. Illustrate strategies to evoke and reinforce “change talk” during brief interactions with patients.
2. Employ MI skills and strategies during patient interactions, including how to use MI to provide evidence-based information about vaccines and science media literacy.
3. Evaluate feedback from other participants on practicing MI skills.
4. Create a plan for how they will use the Getting to the Heart and Mind of the Matter Toolkit to assist them in their interactions with patients and health promotion efforts.

Presenters

Dr. Anya Sheftel 
Licensed psychologist and Research Assistant Professor of Special Education at Washington State University

Dr. Erica Weintraub Austin 
Professor and founding director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Media and Health Promotion Research

Continuing Education

  • There is no charge for continuing education credit.
  • Continuing education (CE) is available for physicians attending the live webinar OR watching the recording.
  • Even if you attend the live webinar or watch the recording as a group, everyone MUST register for the webinar and complete the evaluation as an individual prior to receiving CE.
  • CE expires 2/13/24.
  • After attending the live webinar, an evaluation will be sent to you in an email.
  • After watching the recording, please complete the evaluation. If you want CE credit, you must complete the evaluation.
  • A few weeks after the live webinar, we will email certificates to everyone who requested CE.
  • Around 2/13/24, we will email certificates to those who watched the recording.

Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Statement

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 Federation of State Medical Boards, the Washington Medical Commission, and the Washington State Department of Health. The Federation of State Medical Boards is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Federation of State Medical Boards designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credit Designation Statement

The Federation of State Medical Boards designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Director

Morgan Barrett, MD
Washington Medical Commission

Commercial Support

This learning activity is not funded by any commercial entity.

Disclosure Declaration

As an organization accredited by the ACCME, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) requires that the content of CME activities and related materials provide balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor. All faculty, planners, and others in a position to control continuing medical education content participating in an accredited continuing education activity are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Faculty (authors, presenters, speakers and planners) are encouraged to provide a balanced view of therapeutic options by utilizing either generic names or other options available when utilizing trade names to ensure impartiality.

Faculty members are asked to disclose all financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies regardless of the potential relevance of each relationship to the education and of the amount. The FSMB has implemented a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to the activity. The intent of this policy is to identify potential conflicts of interest so participants can form their own judgments with full disclosure of the facts. Participants will be asked to evaluate whether the speaker’s outside interests reflect a possible bias in the planning or presentation of the activity. The speakers, course director, and planners at the Federation of State Medical Boards, have nothing to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Uses

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For additional information about approved uses, including approved indications, contraindications, and warnings, please refer to the prescribing information for each product, or consult the Physicians’ Desk Reference.

Faculty and Staff Disclosures

No speaker or persons in control of content reported intent to reference unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or products.

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