Welcome to CAFP’s Family Medicine Faculty
The CAFP Committee on Continuing Professional Development (CoCPD) and Scientific Program Committee (SPC) welcome you to their family medicine faculty. The members of the faculty participate in any number of educational activities sponsored by the CAFP, including our Annual Scientific Assembly, national adult ADHD curriculum, statewide initiative on addressing language access issues, and Pri-Med events on pain management.

Here you’ll find much of the information you’ll need to participate as a faculty member, including honoraria information, evidence-based CME criteria, what to expect from a PCP audience, and more. This document is a companion piece to your contract. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact CAFP at (415) 345-8667 or the CoCPD/SPC liaison assigned to your activity.

We look forward to working with you, and we appreciate your commitment to the highest quality CME for family physicians and other primary care providers.

Honoraria, Expense, Travel and Accommodation Policies
Accommodations
Travel Reimbursement
Per Diem
Speaker Declaration of Interest
Speaker’s Copyright Agreement
Protection
Ownership of Rights
Recording Release
Off Label Use and Product Discussion
Gifts to Physicians and CME Policy
Deadlines
Slides, Syllabus and “No Changes”
Tailoring Your Presentation for the PCP Audience
What Our Audience Members Say They Want from Their Faculty
“What information would you like to see faculty members include in their presentations?”
Evidence-Based CME
Practice Recommendations
EB CME Documentation and Disclosure Requirements
EB CME Development Resources
EB-CME Development Flow Chart

Honoraria, Expense, Travel and Accommodation Policies
The Academy is able to offer a modest honorarium, as agreed upon by both speaker and Committee on Continuing Medical Education or Scientific Program Committee Liaison. This amount is reflected on your Contract. In addition to the honoraria, the CAFP provides speakers with the following:

Also, please note that CAFP requires original receipts for all expenses when fulfilling reimbursement requests.

Speaker Declaration of Interest
We require all our speakers to submit a declaration of interest statement. The form is included in this packet, and declarations are announced to the symposia participants both from the podium and in the printed materials.

Speaker’s Copyright Agreement
Speakers are asked to authorize the CAFP to make audio and/ or video tapes of the presentation and grants the CAFP a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to distribute those tapes, and to use the material they contain, including the handouts. The speaker will obtain copyright approval, for any lawful purpose, including publication in a conference proceedings and/or distribution via the Internet. The copyright to the material at all times remains with the Speaker.

Recording Release
CAFP may electronically record your presentation and reproduce your handout materials, making them available to meeting attendees, those who were not able to attend but would benefit from the educational value, and/or use for public relations or advertising purposes. CAFP will assume that you are giving your permission to record your presentation unless you indicate otherwise on your Contract.

Off Label Use and Product Discussion
Because of regulatory considerations, please be advised that if during your talk you discuss any product, it should only be within the framework of approved labeling and approved recommended indications and uses for the product. If you speak about one product, you should mention all product options. CAFP encourages faculty to use generic names of products rather than brand names, and asks faculty members to include all drugs in a class, rather than focusing on a single drug.

Slides, Syllabus and “No Changes”
CAFP prints a syllabus for each activity, using the slides or other information you submit. We require speakers to submit their slides for review and for syllabus production no later than 1 month prior to the event. This time frame may change with some events, and the CAFP office will notify you if this is the case. Because participants follow the syllabus -- and your slides �" carefully, we ask that you “Do Not Change” your presentation after you have submitted it. Should changes be necessary, please let CAFP staff know, so we can make the appropriate announcements to participants. We will on occasion, with proper notice to faculty, post presentations (in lock format) on this Web site after the event.

Tailoring Your Presentation for the PCP Audience
Our sessions are packed with practical information, techniques and skills family physicians take home to improve their practices and the quality of care they provide. These general guidelines will help you meet the expectations of your audience.

1. Your audience consists of experienced FPs who want to learn about new developments and update their clinical skills in the broad field of family medicine. They want up-to-date information, particularly new concepts and procedures oriented toward clinical practice and direct patient care. They like practical information about specific protocols, products, and doses.

2. Show the audience early in your presentation you know how to relate to FPs with busy office schedules and increasing demands of managed care. For example, begin your talk with a scenario based on the professional seeing a patient in the exam room or bedside, having to deal with a clinical problem that leads into a discussion of your topic.

3. The most frustrating experience for this audience is to listen to a speaker who begins with a long review of basic science, then runs overtime and has to leave out the specific clinical details on treating the problem at the end.

4. Lecture presenters should allow time for Q & A.

What Our Audience Members Say They Want from Their Faculty
CAFP recently completed an online member survey. We were seeking more information on our own annual meetings, and on educational activities in general, and we got great feedback. Among the questions asked was:

Evidence-Based CME
The CAFP and AAFP are committed to the concept of evidence-based CME. We encourage faculty members to include elements of evidence in their presentations. For example:

We have outlined some of the basics of EB-CME below; complete details can be found at http://aafp.org/x932.xml or by calling Shelly Rodrigues, CAE at (415) 345-8667.

The AAFP considers CME clinical content to be evidence-based (EB-CME) if it is presented with practice recommendations supported by evidence that has been systematically reviewed by an AAFP-approved evidence-based medicine (EBM) source.

Evidence from other sources may enrich a presentation, but only evidence from AAFP-approved EBM sources will be considered for AAFP EB-CME credit designation. The AAFP will continually evaluate these evidence sources. Your feedback about the value and usefulness of evidence sources will assist in the process of adding sources to or removing them from the list.

Practice Recommendations: Practice recommendations are statements, supported by evidence, that guide physicians in making choices about specific practice behaviors.

A limited number of key practice recommendations, e.g., a minimum of one per topic and a maximum of three per credit, should be developed based on the needs assessment and learning objectives of the CME activity. Practice recommendations must be consistent with the results of a systematic review of evidence conducted by an approved EBM source. They should be written as affirmatively as the supporting evidence allows. Practice recommendations that use conditional language (e.g., “could,” “should,” “might,” etc.) are acceptable as long as they are consistent with the conclusions of the systematic review from an AAFP-approved EBM source. Finally, the key practice recommendations must be consistent with the clinical content of the CME activity. They should constitute the main point(s) of the content and not be peripheral to the content.

Faculty should search the approved sources for evidence before developing practice recommendations. Evidence should drive content. “Retrofitting” evidence to pre-existing content poses great challenges in the development of EB-CME and is discouraged. Expert opinion must give way to evidence when expert opinion and evidence are not in agreement.

EB CME Documentation and Disclosure Requirements: CME faculty must present the following information in advance to the AAFP for purposes of review and then disclose this information to the learner in the CME activity:

Key practice recommendations: The AAFP-approved EBM source used to find supporting evidence for each recommendation. The specific Web site (not the source's home page) of the supporting evidence
Strength of cited evidence (narrative description and/or grade as provided by the approved source)

To be eligible for AAFP EB-CME credit, provide the information requested for each EB-CME topic on the Faculty Documentation Form.

EB CME Development Resources: The AAFP considers CME clinical content to be evidence-based (EB-CME) if it is presented with practice recommendations supported by evidence that has been systematically reviewed by an AAFP-approved evidence-based medicine (EBM) source. The AAFP has selected EBM sources that consistently conduct comprehensive systematic evidence reviews to provide a reliable quality control for the evidence accepted by the AAFP for EB-CME designation. A systematic review is one in which all the trials on a topic have been systematically identified, appraised, and summarized according to predetermined criteria.

Evidence from other sources may enrich a presentation, but only evidence from approved sources will be considered for AAFP EB CME designation. The AAFP will continually evaluate these evidence sources. Your feedback about the value and usefulness of evidence sources will assist in the process of adding sources to or removing them from the list. The following is a current listing of AAFP-approved sources of systematic evidence reviews:

Faculty Documentation Form:
Should you decide to include EB-CME in your presentation, please notify Shelly Rodrigues, so the proper paperwork can be filed, and the proper credit given.