The Arkansas Academy of Palliative Medicine (AAPM) was established in September 2007 to help meet the needs in the state for continuing medical education in palliative and hospice care. It also promotes practice guidelines in palliative and end-of-life care.

Purpose

  AAPM is organized for the purpose of benevolent support of medical education and advancement of palliative medicine to benefit the public interest in the State of Arkansas by:

1.Contributions measured in the time contributed by professional educators, funds, and research skills from among AAPM Membership to existing educational and healthcare institutions, whose own non-profit status is recognized as being 501(c)(3) tax exempt by the Internal Revenue Code.

2.Contributions in grant writing, administration, and research skills in partnership with other non-profit 501(c)(3) institutions that promote and/or provide medical education that enables such institutions to carry on research into areas of mutual scientific interests: for example, pain management research, benchmarking or outcomes research, and informal caregiver support research, etc.

3.Contributions in financial and professional support for the development of clinical skills of licensed professional hospice and palliative medicine workers in the State of Arkansas whose work benefits the public interest, especially with regard to providing the highest quality end-of-life care under palliative medicine’s national standards of care.

Arkansas Academy of Palliative Medicine

 4th annual CME Conference

October 11, 2010 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Location: To be announced

Exhibitors Welcome!!

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