Continuing Education
Activity Director
Winifred J. Hamilton, PhD, SM
Assistant Professor
Departments of Medicine and Neurosurgery
Director, Environmental Health Section
Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Activity Co-Director
Stuart L. Abramson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Allergy and Immunology Section
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
Activity Co-Director
Debra C. Cherry, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Health Sciences
The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
Medical Consultant
Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health
Tyler, Texas
Project Manager
Tamara C. Greiner, MA
Office of Continuing Medical Education
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
ACCREDITATION AND CREDIT DESIGN
Physicians
Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Baylor College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The presentation, Building Healthy Children: Economics and Ethics, has been designated by Baylor College of Medicine for 1.5 credit(s) of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.
Social Workers
This program has been approved for .75 CEUs by the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston for licensed social workers, licensed professional counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists. Other disciplines should verify CEU acceptance with their licensing board.
Educators
7.75 hours of CPE Credit (contact hours). CPE Approval Number 5003590.
Nurses
7.3 CNE contact hours available to nurses. Texas Children's Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity meets Type 1 criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward relicensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas.
The participant must attend the entire conference and complete an evaluation.
Approval as a provider refers to recognition of educational activities only and does not imply ANCC Commission on Accreditation, Texas Nurses Association, or Texas Children's Hospital approval or endorsement of any product.
NEEDS
This activity addresses a number of needs including:
- Environmental health challenges specific to the Gulf Coast
- Paucity of pediatric environmental health research and educational programs in Gulf Coast region
- Lack of training in environmental health hazards and disease in children among primary care health professionals and teachers
- Lack of programs to prevent exposure to environmental health hazards
- Articulated desire of regional health professionals for accurate and useful environmental health information
- Articulated desire of physicians, teachers, and others for specific tools for diagnosing and treating children who have been exposed to environmental hazards
- Lack of training among health care professionals to be advocates for environmental health in children
- Desire for practical actions that make a difference
OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of the activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify key pediatric illnesses or symptoms caused or exacerbated by exposure to environmental toxicants
- Explain the importance of an environmental exposure history
- Define key features of healthy homes, schools, and communities
- List fetal and early childhood exposures that may lead to lifelong disabilities or susceptibilities to illness
- List strategies for advocating on behalf of children’s health
- Create a specific personal list of three actions to be undertaken in the following year to promote and protect children’s health
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Houston area healthcare professionals, primary care physicians and residents, nurses, and community health workers (promotores de salud)
- Area citizens, educators, advocacy groups, government officials, and public health workers
EDUCATIONAL METHODS
- Audience response system
- Question and answer sessions
- Panel discussions
- Case presentations
- Syllabus
- Lectures
- Audiovisual aids
- Written action plans
EVALUATION
Questionnaires at several post-symposium time points will address program content, presentation, possible bias, effectiveness, and/or changes in attitude or behavior.
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