Section Name: Federal Health Care Educators

Section Leader 2008: Peggy Kennedy, MSN, RN, peggy.kennedy1@va.gov

Section Leader-elect: TBD

Date: January 12, 2008

Target audience/background of members:

All federal providers of Continuing Medical Education including educators from Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, PHS, NIH, and Bureau of Prisons. While the focus is on those who develop education for healthcare members in US federal settings, those who share interests in CME from government communities around the world are welcome.

Purpose/goal of the section:

CME providers must continually address the needs created by changes in federal health care delivery, as well as in the CME world. The section meeting provides an opportunity for federal educators to discuss common issues, goals and challenges that effect CME and examine areas for common/joint ventures to strengthen professional education in government settings.

Participants will:

•	Review and discuss the latest changes, issues and learner needs in federal settings,
•	Discuss opportunities to share and leverage resources, products and activities that have already been developed,
•	Discuss partnering among government agencies to reduce or eliminate redundancies with regard to educational activities and products, by joint development or sharing of educational activities.

Planned activities of the section (at the Annual Conference and throughout the year):

The section meets at the Annual Conference.

Other groups with similar target audiences, but not limited to Alliance members, will be communicated with during the year. Alliance members will encourage others to become involved in Alliance.

During this year of expanding, the section group leader will contact all potential section members in the Alliance membership to invite them to attend and participate in the 2009 Section Meeting.