CME Chair:  Arthur Frank, MD, MPH, FACPM                    Staff:  Ginger Anderson
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In early February 2001, Jessica Cafarella and Ginger Anderson took over staffing responsibilities for ACPM’s Education Committee. Jessica Cafarella serves as GME Manager for the College, and she is responsible for staffing the full Education Committee, the GME Subcommittee, coordinating the Preventive Medicine Residency Directors Workshop, staffing the ACPM Preventive Medicine Residency Funding Task Force, and overseeing the bi-annual preventive medicine in-service exam. Ginger Anderson is ACPM’s CME coordinator. She staffs the CME Subcommittee, manages the Preventive Medicine Review Course, and works on ACPM’s cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to provide physicians with environmental health education.

At the Preventive Medicine 2001 meeting, Donald Gemson will replace Dorry Lane as Chair of the ACPM Education Committee. Gary Goldbaum will replace Linda Hill as Chair of the GME Subcommittee. Dr. Goldbaum also serves as Chair of ACPM’s Preventive Medicine Residency Funding Task Force.

The Education Committee was scheduled to meet by conference call on February 13, 2001. The Committee was expected to hear updates on the CME and GME Subcommittees, the in-service exam, the review course, the HRSA grant, and the Preventive Medicine Residency Funding Task Force. Participants also were slated to discuss the Committee’s past and future role within the College and to prepare for networking and Committee recruitment events at Preventive Medicine 2001.

Major activities of the subcommittees and staff during/following the November 2000 meetings are listed below.

The CME Subcommittee has concluded that:

· It is not cost-effective for ACPM to develop its own CME courses. Rather, the subcommittee recommends that ACPM focus its CME efforts on seeking opportunities to collaborate with other organizations that have existing CME content to jointly market CME courses. One possible strategy is for ACPM to serve as a link to CME opportunities offered by other organizations and determined by ACPM to be valuable learning tools.

· ACPM should expand review course and re-certification subject matter to strengthen the environmental health components. The subcommittee will continue working with the Environmental Health Education Advisory Committee to develop environmental health modules, and currently is working with the Advisory Committee on an Internet-based module on safe drinking water.