Clinical Affairs and Education

Healthy People 2010 is a set of national disease prevention and health promotion objectives to be achieved by the end of this decade.

Healthy People 2010 has two overarching goals: to increase the quality and years of healthy life and to eliminate health disparities.

The Leading Health Indicators are a set of 10 high-priority public health issues in the United States. The indicators are intended to help everyone more easily understand how healthy we are as a Nation and which are the most important changes we can make to improve our own health as well as the health of our families and communities.

  • Physical Activity
  • Overweight and Obesity
  • Tobacco Use
  • Substance Abuse
  • Responsible Sexual Behavior
  • Mental Health
  • Injury and Violence
  • Environmental Quality
  • Immunizations
  • Access to Care

For more information visit www.healthypeople.gov.

Patient Safety & Quality Care

AAPA's Quality Care Committee has developed a patient safety presentation that it can offer to any state or specialty PA organization. Thanks to a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality the QCC can provide the presentation at no cost to the constituent organization. Contact Bob McNellis at bmcnellis@aapa.org if you are interested in adding this presentation to your state or specialty CME program.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has many resources for addressing patient safety and quality issues in your institution. Check out the resource on AHRQ's Quality Tools Web page.

Look for more resources on AAPA's Quality Care Web page.

Education Council

AAPA's Education Council is dedicated to ensuring that PAs have the appropriate knowledge, skills and abilities to deliver the highest quality patient care.

Other Links

PDA PA: Here is an ever growing list of clinical tools for your Palm OS-based personal digital assistant (PDA).

Drug Database: Access the Physician Assistants' Prescribing Reference Drug Information, a database of current and concise drug information.

Related Links: Features important links to the health agencies of the federal goverment and other health organizations.

 

Featured Links

Poster Session Deadline!

AAPA's 18th Annual Clinical and Professional Poster Session. Deadline for abstract submission is January 7! Link to poster session information.

Free Patient Education Brochures

AAPA has entered into a partnership with Vitality Communications to develop and distribute to PAs high-quality patient education brochures on a variety of disease states. There are now three publications available at no cost to AAPA members. The topics are hypertension, diabetes, and weight-related health risks. Additional topics will be added as they become available. Link to order form.

Clinical Partners

AAPA has partnered with many other health organizations to ensure they understand the role of PAs and to help bring the most important clinical information and educational programs to AAPA members. Link to clinical partners here.

Clinical and Scientific Affairs Council

AAPA's Clinical and Scientific Affairs Council's mission is to identify and disseminate important cllinical information to PAs. CSAC uses several venues to deliver this information to PAs.

Clinical Watch in JAAPA

Special Reports in JAAPA

 

CSAC Top Ten Presentations at annual conference
Annual Clinical and Professional
Poster Session

Linking to the poster session page will answer your questions about how to submit an abstract for the poster session, link you to our easy, efficient on-line abstract submission form, and let you download copies of our abstract and submission guidelines.

It's one-stop shopping for the Annual Clinical and Professional Poster Session. You can also review abstracts from past conferences.

The Abstract Submission process closes on January 7, 2009! Get your submissions in now!

For more information on any of these topics or suggestions for new features contact Bob McNellis at bmcnellis@aapa.org.