Education & Training:
Immunization Courses:
Broadcasts, Webcasts, and Self Study
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CDC offers numerous education and training programs for healthcare personnel. A variety of topics and formats are available. All are based on vaccine recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP).
Physicians, nurses, health educators, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals are invited to apply for continuing education credits/contact hours, when available. For Continuing Education information, refer to the course-specific information.
Also available are:
--CDC Public Health Training Opportunities
--Brochure: Immunization Education and Training
--Immunization training offerings from other groups
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Courses
Course Name & link to details |
Brief Description |
Format |
|---|---|---|
| Adolescent Immunizations: A Practice-based Approach, 2010 |
Strategies for improving adolescent immunization rates. In collaboration with Medscape Posted: March 2010 | Webcast, 26 minutes |
| Adult Immunization 2010 | A summary about vaccine recommendations for adults. Posted: June 2010 |
Webcast, 2 hours 40 minutes |
| Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases | The comprehensive nine-part series covering key general immunization principles and more specific information on vaccine-preventable diseases and their respective vaccines. Posted: May 2012 |
Eleven 60 to 90 minute modules, available as webcasts |
| Immunization Update |
The annual update on key immunization issues and recent developments. Original Broadcast: August 4, 2011 |
2 hour self-study in webcast or DVD format |
| Immunization: You Call the Shots | A series of modules designed to summarize all aspects of immunization. The modules provide vaccine recommendations, links to resource materials, and self-tests to assess learning. | Self-paced web-based modules. User friendly. Averaging 60 to 90 minutes per module |
| Increasing Adult Vaccination Rates: What Works | An interactive course that provides strategies providers can use to increase immunization rates among their adult patients. Updated: May 2010 |
Online module, averaging 60 to 90 minutes |
| Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know | A discussion of key information about smallpox and smallpox vaccine. Recorded: 2001 |
Online module, about 2 to 2 ½ hours |
| Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases | The key information needed by public health staff charged with surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. Broadcast: February 2012 |
Webcast |
| Teaching Immunization Deivery and Evaluation (TIDE) | Five self-contained modules using clinical scenarios to trigger problem solving and discussion. Developed by the Medical University of South Carolina and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association/Society for Adolescent Medicine. | Self-paced web-based modules |
| Teaching Immunization for Medical Education (TIME) | Ready-to-use instructional materials that can be integrated into existing medical school curricula. Available from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. | Multi-station clinical teaching scenarios targeting medical students |
| The Immunization Encounter: Critical Issues | Addresses issues related to a routine immunization clinic encounter: Before, during and after. Original Broadcast: December 2009 |
Webcast, 2 hours |
Terms Used on This Page
Slides: PowerPoint presentations for each segment of the broadcast/webcast.
Resources: Links to resources discussed during the broadcast/webcast.
Updates and Clarifications: Information that has changed since the broadcast/ webcast, and explanations or clarifications of topics discussed during the webcast.
Questions and Answers: Questions submitted during broadcasts/webcasts, including faxed and e-mailed questions not answered on-air.
Broadcast and New Course Calendar
- February 1, 2012
Surveillance of Vacciine-Preventable Diseases - May 1, 2011
Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Release of NEW 2011 ten-part self-study program - August 4, 2011
Immunization Update Satellite Broadcast and Live Webcast at 9 am and 12 noon Eastern time
Course Descriptions, Links, and Resources
Adolescent Immunizations: A Practice-based Approach
MEDSCAPE CME:
This CME activity is a roundtable discussion on adolescent vaccines developed for distribution on Medscape. It can accessed at "MedscapeCME" at http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/716764
Target Audience:
This CME activity was developed for physicians and other health care professionals who treat adolescent patients.
Description:
This activity will review the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended adolescent vaccines, tools, and resources for accessing the latest information and updates regarding adolescent vaccines, and tips and recommendations for increasing the immunization rate among teens.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the ACIP-recommended adolescent vaccines and the schedules for each
- Identify strategies to incorporate the recommended ACIP adolescent vaccination schedule into clinical practice, with emphasis on associating implementation with well/routine visits
CME:
CME Released: 3/15/2010; Valid for credit through 3/15/2011
Adult Immunization 2010
Description:
Addresses the impact of vaccine-preventable diseases on adults; recommended vaccines for adults, including indications and contraindications; coverage among various demographic and risk groups; and strategies to improve coverage levels.
Audience:
Immunization Providers (Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physician’s Assistants, DoD Paraprofessionals, Medical Students, etc.)
Format:
Archived Webcast
Produced by:
CDC
To view or order:
- Adult Immunization 2010, WD1536 (Web on Demand) (CE expires 06/01/12)
- Adult Immunization 2010, DV1536 (DVD) (CE expires 06/01/12)
Length: 2.5 hours -
Broadcast June 15, 2010
Immunization Update
Description:
An annual update, highlighting current and late-breaking immunization issues.
Audience:
Immunization Providers (Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physician’s Assistants, DoD Paraprofessionals, Medical Students, etc.)
Format:
- Live Webcast
Produced by:
CDC
- Visit Immunization Update 2012 main page
- DVD and archived webcast available September 2012.
To order, use CDC's Online Publications Order Form. - DVD (Available Soon)
- Archived Webcast
For more information:
Immunization: You Call the Shots
Description:
This web-based course is an interactive, self-study program consisting of a series of modules covering all aspects of immunization. The modules provide basic vaccine content, links to resource materials, a comprehensive glossary, and self-tests to assess learning.
Audience:
Practicing nurses and nursing students, medical assistants, pharmacists, and other health professionals who provide immunizations. The course is designed for immunization providers who are new to immunization or for those who need a refresher.
Format:
Interactive web-based program.
Produced by:
The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, in collaboration with CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
To view or order:
More information and link to all available modules
Increasing Adult Vaccination Rates: What Works
Description:
Nearly 50,000 adults die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases . . . and it's not necessary. This interactive computer program offers primary care providers strategies they can use to increase immunization rates among their adult patients.
Audience:
Primary care practitioners: physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Also appropriate: other health professionals who are interested in adult immunization and strategies for increasing adult vaccination rates.
Format:
Interactive web-based program.
CE:
CE expires August 16, 2011
Produced by:
Cooperative agreement between the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research and the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC.
To view or order:
Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know (interactive version)
Description:
Information for clinicians on clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of smallpox, and the characteristics and use of smallpox vaccine. Includes practice questions, case scenarios, and enhanced reference materials.
Audience:
Physicians, nurses, health educators, immunization program managers, pharmacists, Department of Defense paraprofessionals, and other health care providers working in private offices, hospitals, and public health settings.
Format/Length:
Interactive web-based program. Approximately 2.5 hours.
Produced by:
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) and CDC. Satellite broadcast that was first aired on December 13, 2001.
To view or order:
Web-based program course #CB 3062
Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Description:
Provides guidelines for vaccine-preventable disease surveillance, case investigation, and outbreak control.
Audience:
Physicians, infection control practitioners, nurses, epidemiologists, laboratorians, sanitarians, disease reporters, and others who are involved in surveillance and reporting of VPDs.
Format:
Produced by:
CDC
Teaching Immunization Delivery and Evaluation (TIDE)
Description:
A curriculum to improve knowledge, attitudes and skills that are likely to change provider behavior in clinical settings, leading to increased immunization rates for children. Clinical scenarios are used to trigger problem solving and discussion. The scenarios are organized as four self-contained modules. Each module covers a different aspect of immunization delivery.
Audience:
Immunization Providers (Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physician’s Assistants, Medical Students, etc.)
Format:
Web-based interactive modules.
CE:
Register for course on TIDE website for full details.
Produced by:
The Academic Pediatric Association with support from CDC and the Medical University of South Carolina.
To view or order:
Visit the TIDE website
Teaching Immunization for Medical Education (TIME)
Description:
This curriculum is designed for use in medical schools to support immunization instruction. The TIME modules provide ready-to-use instructional materials that can be integrated into existing medical curricula. The modules include vaccine indications and contraindications, immunization schedules, and recommendations on efficient ways to increase vaccination levels.
The materials provide student objectives, learning objectives, key teaching points, and resources.
Audience:
Schools of Medicine
Format:
Download from Internet
Produced by:
The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR), in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the CDC.
To view or order:
For information and to download a free copy, visit the APTR website
The Immunization Encounter: Critical Issues
Description:
Addresses issues related to a routine immunization clinic encounter: patient intake and screening, vaccine administration, vaccine management, documentation, vaccine adverse events management and reporting, and resources for staff orientation and development.
Audience:
Immunization clinic managers, staff supervisors, and staff who administer vaccines (Physicians, RNs and LPNs, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Physician's Assistants, Medical Assistants, DOD Paraprofessionals, Students)
Format:
Archived Webcast
Produced by:
CDC
Resources and Slides associated with this program
(webccast produced 2008, continuing education extended until January 19, 2014)
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