ALSO® Instructor Course
Monday, September 23, 2024
1–5 p.m.
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, AZ
Registration: $650
Registration closes September 3, 2024.
This course is held the day before the AAFP’s Family Medicine Experience (FMX), and you can reserve a hotel room under the FMX Hotel Block for more savings. You do not need to register for FMX to receive this discount.
The ALSO Instructor Course is designed to teach current ALSO Providers the skills and knowledge needed to effectively facilitate lectures and workstations at an ALSO Course. Successful completion of this course, as well as evaluation and recommendation by an advisory faculty member at an ALSO Course, is required to become an ALSO approved instructor.
Current ALSO status as of September 23, 2024 is required to attend this course.
Successful completion of required online course elements is mandatory
prior to attending the live portion of this course.
A limited number of spaces are available for individuals who complete the Instructor Course at this location to be immediately observed teaching in the ALSO Course the very next day. This will expedite advancement to Approved Instructor completion status. If interested, please contact Gaylynn Butts at gbutts@aafp.org.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Plan to utilize demonstrated educational tools that can be used when giving feedback to ALSO® course participants.
- Identify strategies to assist participants with questions and conflicts that can occur during the workstations.
- Develop plans to demonstrate teaching competence in hands-on role-play utilizing maternal-fetal mannequins, including providing timely feedback, and adaptation of teaching methods to various situations.
- Facilitate group discussion, and consider ways to implement faculty and learner feedback to enhance the educational experience.
- Facilitate a simulated group testing scenario from setup through team observation, debriefing and evaluation.
- Devise a plan to assist Instructor Candidates in achieving and maintaining full ALSO® Instructor status.
Registration includes online access to the ALSO Instructor manual.
If you registered for this course and have not been contacted by a member of the AAFP ALSO team by September 9, 2024, please email also@aafp.org in order to get access to required online materials.
This course is held the day before the AAFP’s Family Medicine Experience (FMX), and you can reserve a hotel room under the FMX Hotel Block for more savings. You do not need to register for FMX to receive this discount.
The AAFP has reviewed ALSO Instructor Course and deemed it acceptable for up to 3.25 Live AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 9/23/2024 to 9/23/2024. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA/AAFP Equivalency - Providers may choose to include the following in addition to the AAFP credit statement:
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.
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