Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Physicians, Nurses, Public Health Personnel, and other professionals working in the area of immunizations.

Educational Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Interpret and employ new or updated vaccine information
Discuss vaccine-related information with patients and their families
Provide science-based resources to patients and their families who are seeking additional information

SPECIAL NOTE:

There is no educational content to this course. This course is designed to supplement training that has already occurred. This course is designed to only provide the required post test and collect CME evaluations.

Suggested Additional Reading

ACIP meetings on-line http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/index.html
Vaccine Education Center at CHOP http://vaccine.chop.edu
http://vaccine.chop.edu/parents
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines
Immunization Action Coalition http://www.immunize.org
Every Child by Two http://www.ecbt.org

Joint Sponsor Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pennsylvania Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits'. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals are awarded .10 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.0 contact hours. Faculty for this activity have been requested to identify significant financial or other relationships with manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) or with provider(s) of any commercial service(s) which might affect the balance of their presentation.

Authors:

Paul A. Offit, MD — Director, Vaccine Education Center at CHOP; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, CHOP, and Professor of Pediatrics and Maurice Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, U of Penn 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 Credit™

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