Chair: Don Gemson                                                 Staff:Jessica Cafarella, Ginger Anderson

GME Subcommittee Chair: Gary Goldbaum

CME Subcommittee Chair: Arthur Frank

Since the February conference call of the Education Committee and in-person meetings of the GME and CME Subcommittees, ACPM education activities have focused on: (1) developing a "best practices" manual for preventive medicine residency programs; (2) developing four Internet-based modules for CME credit; (3) jointly sponsoring educational activities with other medical associations; (4) developing new practices and tools to continuously improve ACPM’s educational programs; and (5) planning the 2001 Board Review Course. Current activities and upcoming plans in these areas are outlined below.

The GME Subcommittee has continued work on the draft "best practices" manual that was reviewed at the Eighth Annual Preventive Medicine Residency Directors Workshop, held in conjunction with Preventive Medicine 2001. The manual is expected to be completed early this summer. It will be posted on ACPM’s website, as well as distributed directly to all preventive medicine programs. The manual contains sections on affiliation agreements; administrative requirements and policies; RAC and GMEC; rotations; formal skill testing and board performance; and evaluations. The manual also incorporates the new Program Information Form (PIF) for preventive medicine, which was released by the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Preventive Medicine in April, 2001.

ACPM’s CME program has entered the Internet Age. Four projects involving CME credit that can be earned over the World Wide Web are in the works, including the adaptation of the 2001 Annual Meeting for online viewing. An educational module on the role of the physician in injury control, using car crashes as an example, is being developed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Final content review is being performed for the Indoor Air Quality module the College is developing with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and marketing will begin shortly. Finally, work on the online adaptation of Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) conference, "Safe Drinking Water: What Every Health Care Provider Should Know", as part of ACPM’s cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), is nearing completion.

In addition to the Internet projects, the College recently has jointly sponsored the 30^th Annual Sports Medicine Symposium with the American Medical Athletic Association (AMAA). ACPM also plans to jointly sponsor the annual meeting of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and an educational session by the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) to coincide with the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in October.

The CME Subcommittee intends to focus in the near future on planning and implementing actions to continuously improve the quality of the educational programs ACPM offers. To that end, the Subcommittee has revitalized its role in selecting and developing the educational activities with which the College involves itself, reviewing every program from the early planning stages to completion. Over the next several months, the Subcommittee will also work to develop standardized, but adaptable, survey tools to be used to evaluate and improve ACPM’s educational programs. In addition to implementing practices and tools to improve future programs, the Subcommittee intends to plan one in the form of an educational session in conjunction with the 2002 APHA meeting. The purpose will be to provide an update on the specialty of Preventive Medicine, with the intent of increasing awareness of the College and encouraging membership.

The Review Course Planning Committee, chaired by Gershon Bergeisen, MD, MPH, FACPM, and Col. Eric Evenson, MD, MPH, FACPM, is working to fill the few remaining faculty vacancies and finalize the schedule for the 2001 Review Course, scheduled to take place in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 through 29^th. The course has been publicized to the ACPM membership, to those who took the course in 2000 but were not listed as having passed the Board exam, to everyone who has been approved by the Board to take the exam, and to others. Registrations are beginning to come in and the pace is expected to quicken as the date of the course draws nearer.