Accreditation and Details of Our Online CME Programs

Top experts in the fields of Primary Care, Psychiatry, Gynecology and Family Practice present our streaming video lectures on topics of importance critical to clinicians caring for women. All of the videos are CME accredited through The Health Communication Research Institute, Inc., (HCRI), a CMA-accredited provider for continuing medical education in Category 1 toward the California Medical Association's Certification in Continuing Medical Education and the American Medical Association's Physician's Recognition Award. We currently are pleased to offer CME as well as CE for AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists). Applications are pending for CEU's for PhDs and LCSWs. It is our understanding the California Medical Association's Certification in Continuing Medical Education may be acceptable for certain western states for PhD CEU's. To confirm this please contact the American Psychological Association. For some of our programs for 2006 and beyond we will have national CME from the American Academy of Family Practitioners as well as ACCME from Starfish Partners, a provider of ACCME.

CME Providers

HCRI is a 16-year-old non-profit organization, headquartered in Sacramento, CA, and affiliated with California State University, Sacramento, and the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, to provide clinicians with CME/CE streaming videos. The senior staff of HCRI hold faculty appointments at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine; California State University, Sacramento, and the UCD Center for Medical Informatics. HCRI has been accredited for CME as a CME provider in Category 1 toward the California Medical Association's Certification in Continuing Medical Education and the American Medical Association's Physicians Recognition Award. Starfish Partners is an innovative online health care organization with a focus on integrative medicine. As part of their organization they have developed an evidenced based ACCME arm that is separate from the Starfish partners organization that is focused on integrations of novel and customary therapies that may or may not meet evidenced based medicine criteria.

We are thankful to the Starfish Partners CME arm for supporting our programs in 2006. Through Starfish ACCME, the foundation has been able to apply for American Academy of Family Physicians CME for some of itÕs programs. We felt that having both ACCME and AAFP certification that this would be an additional service to our clinicians readers.

Funding/Grants

AFWH and HCRI have sought out educational grants to support these online programs. Both AFWH and HCRI follow the ACCME's updated standards for commercial support. For a complete discussion of ACCME philosophies for accredited providers, standards for commercial support, as well as "Ask ACCME" please click here.

Issues critical to educational grants for CME/CE as presented by the new ACCME guidelines are:

• Commercial supporters may not unduly influence the development of CME activities
• Independence of the faculty and provider
• CME/CE providers are not bound to any corporate input

AFWH Disclaimer

The continuing medical education programs on this site are intended solely for educational purposes for qualified health care providers. AFWH or HCRI in no event shall be liable for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information contained in these programs. In no event should the information contained in the program be used as a substitute for professional care. No physician/patient relationship is being established. For further and fuller discussion of our disclaimer please review our Terms and Conditions.

Privacy Policy

Our privacy and confidentiality policy complies with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). All ACCME policies may be found at: http://www.accme.org/incoming/pol_12_internet.pdf.

Disclosures

The full disclosure statements will be published with every CME/CE program in keeping with the ACCME polices of regarding balanced, objective, and unbiased presentations. Faculty relationships with industry or other organizations that are relevant to the topic, disclosing of off-label or investigational products will all be indicated.