A NEW CME COURSE FROM FAPA
PA PRACTICE IN FLORIDA:
WHAT EVERY PA & SUPERVISING
PHYSICIAN
NEEDS TO KNOW
ABOUT THE CME PROGRAM
This continuing medical education activity was designed specifically to assist physician assistants
applying for initial licensure to understand the Florida statutes and the Florida Administrative Code
(FAC) and to learn what your legal responsibilities are as a licensed physician assistant in Florida.
It was also designed to assist those licensed physician assistants who are applying for license renewal
in updating their knowledge base of current statutes and laws. Finally, it was designed to assist
physicians who are currently supervising physicians of PAs, and physicians who are considering becoming
a supervising physician, to better understand the PA practice acts and rules and their responsibilities
as a supervising physician.
The course was authored by Ron Pace, PA-C, a FAPA Past President. It was reviewed and edited by members of the FAPA Legislative and Government Affairs Committee. It has been updated to reflect legislative changes passed and signed into law on July 1, 2007.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course the participant will:
ACCREDITATION
This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 2.5 hours of AAPA Category I (Preapproved) CME
credit by the AAPA Physician Assistant Review Panel. Approval is valid for one year from the issue date of
February 2007. Participants may submit the self-assessment at any time during that period.
This program was planned in accordance with the AAPA’s CME Standards for Enduring Material Programs and for Commercial Support of Enduring Material Programs.
Successful completion of the self-assessment is required to earn Category I (Preapproved) CME credit. Successful completion is defined as a cumulative score of at least 70% correct on the post test.
COURSE DOCUMENTS
The CME course documents package contains:
Below is a link to the Course Documents Package. Simply print it out the document, complete the course, and then submit the required documents to the office with the required payment. If your printer has a "draft" print available in the quality of print setting choices, that will be quicker of course.
For the more computer literate folks, some may prefer to download the Course Documents Package and save it to their computer to review and complete the course, printing only those document pages needed to submit to the FAPA office for receiving CME credit.
If you print it out at home or receive a hard copy from the FAPA office this is what you need to do. Complete the course and then you will need to mail in to the office, the following:
If you download the Document Package and view it on your computer, you will need to print out these documents from the Documents Package to complete and mail in to the office.
We strongly suggest that every PA applying for licensure, initial and renewal, download and study this material. It will be extremely beneficial to everyone. If you are going to spend the time reviewing the course, why not just submit the paperwork and get the 2.5 hours of CME credit for it? We purposely kept the cost inexpensive to encourage more folks to take the course. The cost is $20 for FAPA members and $30 for non-members. And keep the document copy handy at work, it will be a great information resource when you get questions from physicians, administrators or others about what you can and cannot do, and you will be able to quote them verbatim from the statutes and rules.
At sometime in the future if the demand develops we will consider utilizing a CD ROM format, or even possibly an interactive online format.
We hope you will find this course helpful to you in understanding PA practice statutes and rules here in Florida. We plan to update the course yearly as statutes and rules change. Between yearly updates notice of changes will be posted to the website and available from the FAPA office as well. It would be wise to consider taking the course with each license renewal cycle to make sure that one stays abreast of these changes. Remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse if you get in trouble down the line.
This is just one more effort by the Florida Academy to assist our members in safely and legally providing quality care to Florida citizens. Thank You.
Ron Pace, PA-C
FAPA Past President
CME Course Author/Administrator
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