Join CSMA in Mountain View
N. California
El Camino Hospital
2400 Grant Road
Mt. View, Ca. 94040
March 29-31, 2019
This is your opportunity to obtain CEUs for recertification, learning more about your profession and its status in California, network with your leaders and colleagues to find answers to your questions and forming your own professional network. We are here for you and your CSMA leaders are working hard to provide and protect medical assisting in California. There will be 14 CEUs. The Edgar Palarea Award will be selected at this meeting. CSMA will pay up to $300 toward your meeting expenses if you attend all business/educational sessions and write a report for our web site.
Updated information will be posted as received. Attend all sessions/ events of the weekend to be eligible for the Edgar Palarea Award drawing at the end of the meeting on Sunday.
March 29, 2019- (4 CEU's)
12: 00-2:00 pm CSMA Executive Committee Meeting (closed meeting)
1:45-2:00 pm REGISTRATION
2:00 -2:30 pm Welcome- President / review agenda
2:30-3:30 pm Sleep - Michelle Primeau, M.D
3:30- 4:30 pm Anxiety & Depression- Grace Nadolny, MD
4:30-6:00 pm HOSPITALITY-
6:00- 8:00 pm Oriental/ Alternative Medicine- LeTa Jussila, L. AC
Cannabinoids in Pain Management- LeTa Jussila, L. AC
8:00-9:30 PM CSMA BUSINESS MEETING
Nominations
Appointments
March 30, 2019- (8 CEU's)
7:00 -7:45 am BREAKFAST
7:45-8:00 am REGISTRATION
8:00-10:00 am Solving Scheduling Nightmares, while creating Team Unity - Jennifer de St
Georges, FPSA (Click on Jennifer's full name to email her topics that you would
like to discuss at the meeting)
10:15-11:15 am SPECIAL TELE PRESENTATION- LIVE from CHICAGO! "The Professional Less-
Regulation Movement; An Opportunity or Threat for Medical Assistants."
Don Balasa, JD MBA. CEO Legal Counsel of AAMA. Audience questions will be
welcomed during session.
11:15-12:15 am Taking Care of Ourselves with Self Compassion. Bob Horowitz, MD(
"Learn the principles & science of self compassion as well as learning some
simple exercises to bring self compassion to stressful moments of your day."
12:15-1:00 pm LUNCH
1:00-2:00 pm Cardiology- Marlene Smith, RN., BSN, PHN
2:00-3:00 pm Weight Management & Nutrition- Rosalie Toren, MD
3:00-3:15 pm BREAK
1 :00-2:00 pm Colorectal Cancer Screening: 2019 and Beyond” Learn the current guidelines for colorectal cancer screening.” Nancy Schlossberg, BA, BSN, RN, CGRN, CER
Volunteer guest- American Cancer Society- March is Colon Cancer Awareness
month
5:15-6:30 pm CSMA MEETING
March 31, 2019 (2 CEU's)
9:00-10:00 am Exploring Dyslexia as a Type of Neurodiversity; In this session, you will learn the brain base of dyslexia, including exploration of the reading brain and how the dyslexic brain differs from that of normal readers. Additionally, you will find out about signs and symptoms of dyslexia in children and adults, and how this language based learning disorder can impact the individual outside of academics. Nancy Redding, M.Ed. Fellow/AOGPE Certified Dyslexia Therapist/IDA
- TBA- confirming speaker
11:00 am- End of meeting- Drawing of Edgar Palarea Award
See you in Southern California in 2020. Please consider volunteering on a CSMA committee. Help support medical assisting in California.
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NEW Recertification Policy Change 4/2018
The time limit for recertifying the CMA (AAMA) credential by continuing education:
Recertification by Continuing Education Time Limit. Effective January 1, 2020, an individual whose credential has been expired for more than three months forfeits the right to reactivate the credential by continuing education and must sit for the CMA (AAMA) Certification/Recertification Examination.
Candidates are allowed three attempts to pass the exam. If the candidate does not pass on the third attempt, the candidate is no longer eligible for the exam or to recertify the CMA (AAMA) credential.
Requirements for Recertification
To recertify your CMA (AAMA) credential by continuing education, a total of 60 recertification points are required across the following categories:
Remember, at least 30 of your 60 recertification points must be accumulated from AAMA approved CEUs.
Take advantage of membership benefits and pay reduced fee's for this meeting;
The time limit for recertifying the CMA (AAMA) credential by continuing education:
Recertification by Continuing Education Time Limit. Effective January 1, 2020, an individual whose credential has been expired for more than three months forfeits the right to reactivate the credential by continuing education and must sit for the CMA (AAMA) Certification/Recertification Examination.
Candidates are allowed three attempts to pass the exam. If the candidate does not pass on the third attempt, the candidate is no longer eligible for the exam or to recertify the CMA (AAMA) credential.
Requirements for Recertification
To recertify your CMA (AAMA) credential by continuing education, a total of 60 recertification points are required across the following categories:
- 10 general
- 10 administrative
- 10 clinical
- 30 from any combination of general, administrative, and clinical
Remember, at least 30 of your 60 recertification points must be accumulated from AAMA approved CEUs.
Take advantage of membership benefits and pay reduced fee's for this meeting;
- New or renewing member (if you have ever been an AAMA member): Join on or after September 1, 2018, and receive membership through December 31, 2019.
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PO Box 1869, Walnut, CA 91788-1869
csma.medassist@gmail.com