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INTRODUCTION

Vaccination 2019

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EVALUATION

CERTIFICATE

INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.50

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and primary care physicians.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Manage vaccine hesitancy
  • Apply and establish routine office standards to increase vaccine rates
  • Recommend ways to improve influenza vaccination rates
  • Explain recent vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks


Suggested Additional Reading:

1) Shots Immunization by AAFP/STFM
    https://www.aafp.org/patient-care/public-health/immunizations/shots-app.html 
2) Immunization Action Coalition
    http://www.immunize.org/  
3) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index.html 

Authors:
Donald Middleton, MD — Professor of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Creditâ„¢

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.