CME printed monographs (Enduring material - other)

Health Literacy Monograph
This monograph offers new supporting research, explores how ineffective communication and low health literacy combine to affect patient safety, provides tools to decrease communication-related adverse events at a systemwide level, and helps physicians initiate changes toward a safer and shame-free practice environment.

Health Literacy Toolkit
This educational kit is the AMA Foundation's primary tool for informing physicians, health care professionals and patient advocates about health literacy.

Healthier Life Steps Program: Physician Guide
This program provides background information and tools to help physicians support their patients’ efforts to change four key health behaviors: diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and tobacco use.  The Physicians’ Guide describes the important role physicians play in fostering lifestyle change, and explains how physicians can implement strategies to assess patients’ readiness to change and how to counsel patients on making these changes.

Risk Assessment For Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Provides latest overview on identifying and assessing cancer risk for hereditary cancer syndromes: hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome), familial adenomatous polyposis syndromes, and hereditary melanoma.

Roadmaps for Clinical Practice: Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity
It is increasingly evident that a strong partnership between the medical and public health sectors is beneficial to the health and well-being of our nation. Such a collaboration exisits between the AMA and the Department of Health and Human Services to produce "Roadmaps for Clincal Practice." The Roadmaps series is intended to assist physicians to adapt to the ever-changing medical landscape and integrate disease prevention and health promotion into routine clinical care.

Roadmaps for Clinical Practice series: Improving Adolescent Immunizations: A Primer for Physicians
Improving Adolescent Immunizations: A Primer for Physicians is designed to assist health care providers with the issues surrounding vaccinating adolescents.

The Obesity Epidemic: Strategies in Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk
The AMA recently sponsored an educational roundtable of experts in cardiology, epidemiology, preventive medicine, pharmacoeconomics, weight management, disease risk assessment, and risk modification to highlight issues in obesity and cardiometabolic risk and prevention.  This activity presents  recent advances and current opinions on the root metabolic causes of obesity, including the endocrinology of energy homeostasis, as well as the clinical impact of obesity, obesity prevention, treatments to reduce associated health risks, and the impact of obesity on healthcare insurance providers.

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