APA Sponsors Education Programs With DBs
APA strives to support its district branches in many ways, and one such way is the APA Joint Sponsorship Program for CME activities. Currently 15 district branches participate in the joint sponsorship process through the APA Department of CME.
APA recognizes that many district branches have limited staff and volunteer members to manage CME activities. The Joint Sponsorship Program was developed to bridge the gap for small district branches with limited resources, allowing them to partner with APA, which is an ACCME-accredited provider and can offer AMA PRA Category 1 credit.
These are some of the benefits of joining the program:
Promotion of CME activities as being jointly sponsored with APA (listed in invitations and the program syllabus). | |||||
Cost-effectiveness, since the fees charged for CME designation range from $250 to $750 per activity. | |||||
No annual fee to participate. | |||||
Dedicated APA staff to assist with the process. | |||||
Here's how the program works: district branches interested in the program apply for participation to the Subcommittee for Joint Sponsorship and designate a representative who is required to attend one meeting a year. This meeting is held during the APA annual meeting.
For each activity for which a district branch seeks joint CME sponsorship, it submits a proposal and required forms to APA. The subcommittee representative attends the activity and submits a final report on it to APA.
Joint sponsorship ensures that the district branch drives the topic of the activity and selects the faculty, while getting the assistance it may need from APA at any time throughout the process.
Adam Kaul, M.D., chair of the Subcommittee on Joint Sponsorship, commented,“ Having APA jointly sponsor activities with our district branches not only provides credibility to our meetings, it also means participants are receiving high-quality CME.”
District branches interested in participating in this program should contact Dana Zook at [email protected].▪
