|
|
|
Preliminary Program
 Back to Table of Contents
Lifelong Learner Bill of Rights
Dear Colleagues and Friends:
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) provided Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits to approximately 9,500 physicians in 2004 through The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the AAAAI Annual Meeting, and other AAAAI programs, resources, and enduring materials.
The Lifelong Learner Bill of Rights is being developed with the input of AAAAI Fellows and members as part of my presidential initiative “AAAAI: Professional Home for the Practicing Allergist.” It reaffirms our commitment to providing outstanding science-based CME that is relevant to allergy/ immunology practitioners.
We pledge to maintain the highest quality in all of our educational programs and to fulfill our promise to provide you with a premier educational experience.
Yours sincerely,
F. Estelle R. Simons, MD FAAAAI
AAAAI President
| American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Lifelong Learner Bill of Rights |
|
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) recognizes that AAAAI members are lifelong learners who choose to engage in continuing medical education in order to maintain the highest level of knowledge, skills and performance. As part of the AAAAI’s duty to its members as learners, they have the right to expect that their continuing medical education experience with the AAAAI will include the following:
1) Content that:
- promotes improvements in patient care;
- is valid, reliable, and accurate;
- offers balanced presentations that are free of commercial bias for or against a product or service;
- is vetted through a process that resolves any conflicts of interest of planners, speakers, or authors;
- is driven by and based on learners’ needs;
- addresses the stated learning objectives; and
- is evaluated for its effectiveness in meeting the identified educational needs.
2) An environment that:
- supports learners’ ability to meet their individual needs;
- attends to learners’ special needs, if any;
- respects the diversity of learners; and
- is free of promotional, commercial, and/or sales activities.
3) Disclosure of:
- relevant financial relationships planners, speakers, and authors have with commercial interests related to the content of the educational activity; and
- commercial support (funding or in-kind resources) of the activity.
|
<back>
|
|
