The 2023 All Member Advocacy Meeting (AMAM) focused on health equity and provided tools and information to help develop family physicians trained and dedicated to being effective advocates for their patients and specialty. This course contains the recordings from the following sessions: Keynote - Born to be an Advocate, Evaluating Policy with an Equity Lens, and Other Advocacy Avenues: Running for Office, Serving on Advisory Committees.

Learning Objective:

At the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• Describe how advocacy efforts impact patient care
• List specific legislative initiatives aimed at improving patient care
• Describe what it means to apply an equity lens in health policy
• Identify present tools that can be used to intentionally examine and address the root causes of inequities
• Explain the importance of integrating racial justice in policies, planning, making decisions, and allocating resources
• Identify opportunities to engage in advocacy for patient care and health policies
• identify where to effectively target advocacy efforts
• Develop communication skills to effectively advocate for policy improvements to policymakers and develop leadership skills to serve on advisory committees

Target Audience:

This activity is designed for family medicine physicians.

Participation and Credit:

Learners must register to participate in and receive credit for this online educational activity. Read the target audience, learning objectives, and author disclosures. Study the educational content online and complete the activity evaluation. Your certificate will be available to you as a downloadable link. You may print the certificate, but you cannot alter it. For information on applicability and acceptance of continuing education credit for this activity, please consult your professional licensing board. 

Unlabeled Use Disclosure:

This activity will not include discussions of products or devices that are not currently approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the curriculum clearly indicates this fact.

Support:

This activity is supported by the California Academy of Family Physicians. 

Fee:

There is no charge for this activity.

Cultural/Linguistic Competency:

CAFP policy and California state law requires that each learning activity have elements of cultural and linguistic proficiency included in the content. The definition of cultural and linguistic competency is the ability and readiness of health care providers and health organizations to humbly and respectfully demonstrate, effectively communicate, and tailor delivery of care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, identities, and behaviors, in order to meet patients’ social, cultural, and linguistic needs as it relates to patient health. This activity meets these requirements.

Implicit Bias:

CAFP policy and California state law requires that all CME activities comprising a patient care element include either (1) examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of physicians and surgeons, leading to disparities in health outcomes and/or (2) strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics. This activity meets these requirements.

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Questions:

For questions regarding the content of this activity or for technical assistance, contact cafp@familydocs.org.

The CAFP has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that information contained herein is accurate in accordance with the latest available scientific knowledge at the time of accreditation of this continuing education program. Information regarding drugs (e.g., their administration, dosages, contraindications, adverse reactions, interactions, special warnings, and precautions) and drug delivery systems is subject to change, however, and the learner is advised to check the manufacturer's package insert for information concerning recommended dosage and potential problems or cautions prior to dispensing or administering the drug or using the drug delivery systems.

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Any medications or treatment methods suggested in this CME activity should not be used by the practitioner without evaluation of their patient's condition(s) and possible contraindication(s) or danger(s) of use of any specific medication.

Copyright:

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