Webinar: Screening, Symptom Recognition & Referral to Treatment for Eating Disorders in Pediatric Primary Care Settings

STRIPED e-course

The Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) and the Eating Disorders Coalition (EDC), supported by the Office on Women’s Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, created an e-course titled, “Screening, Symptom Recognition & Referral to Treatment for Eating Disorders in Pediatric Primary Care Settings” for primary care providers serving children, adolescents, and young adults. We are pleased to offer continuing education credits to physicians and nurses.

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If you are a MD or nurse, you are eligible to receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Continuing Medical Education (CME) options for MDs and nurses:
OPTION 1:	Pre-webinar survey + Webinar + Post-webinar survey	1+ hour	1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
OPTION 2:	Pre-webinar survey + Webinar + Post-webinar survey + QStream Spaced learning questions* + 2-month Follow-up survey	3 hours – over the course of 2 months	3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
* Brief reinforcement questions/answers delivered to your mobile device or email over the course of eight weeks following the webinar and post-webinar survey (approximately 16 questions delivered at a rate of two per week).

You will be emailed a certificate with your CME credits within 7 business days upon completion of your pre-webinar, post-webinar and 2-month post webinar surveys, as well as your QStream questions.

Presenters and Affiliations:

Sara Forman, MD
Clinical Chief, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
Attending Physician, Division of Adolescent Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Holly Gooding, MD, MSc
Section Head for Adolescent Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine

Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Recognize the types and consequences of Eating disorders (EDs) and gaps in care among children, adolescents and young adults in the United States.
Identify potential signs and symptoms of EDs in children, adolescents and young adults and perform screening with a validated questionnaire.
Use an interactive online tool to identify local specialists and refer patients when screening indicates concern

Community Organization Partners
Federal Supporting Agencies and Offices
Funders

If you have any questions, please contact the STRIPED Program Manager, Jill R. Kavanaugh, at jill.kavanaugh@childrens.harvard.edu

Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide continuing medical education for the healthcare team.

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. for webinar only; 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ for full e-course and evaluation. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

AAPA accepts AMA category 1 credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ for webinar only; 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ for full e-course and evaluation. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Learn more about the course on the AMA Ed Hub.

Evaluation Results
To learn more about the results of our course evaluation, see: Raffoul A, Vitagliano JA, Sarda V, Chan C, Chwa C, Ferreira KB, Gooding HC, Forman S, Austin SB. Evaluation of a one-hour asynchronous video training for eating disorder screening and referral in U.S. pediatric primary care: A pilot study. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2022;55(9):1245-1251.(Abstract). This paper reports the results of a study led by STRIPED Faculty Amanda Raffoul and Advocacy Campaign Manager Julia Vitagliano.

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