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Continuing Education, Inc.
5700 4th St. N
St Petersburg FL
33703-2256
1-800-422-0711

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Monday - Friday
8:30am - 6:00pm EST
Saturday
10:00am - 2:00pm EST



Our Specialties
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Women's Health Issues: Physical and Emotional Perspectives

10-Night Cruise Conference from Copenhagen, Denmark

Holland America's ms Eurodam

Gems of the Baltic
June 2 - 12, 2009

Physicians receive CME Category 1 Credits toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award

All social events are complimentary for guests traveling with conferee and whose cabins are booked in the meeting group.
14 CME Category 1 Credits 14 Contact Hours
14 CE Credits Course Fee Physicians $695
All Others - Course Fee $450
Course Fee Cancellation Policy - 30 days or more - None; 7-29 days - 50%; less than 7 days - 100%

IMPORTANT: Dear Conferee. The ships provide many amenities for our meeting group. Private rooms, Dining arrangements, Cocktail Receptions and more. It is required that all participants and their families book within the meeting group at Continuing Education, Inc. 1-800-422-0711 in order for the ship to provide these amenities. All guests are included in complimentary meeting events. We very much appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

IMPORTANT NOTE: All conferees, their families, and guests must book their cruise in the CME meeting group with Continuing Education, Inc. at 800-422-0711 or by registering online. This ensures our company can provide conference amenities to all meeting participants and their guests. Thank you for your cooperation.

Faculty

Florence Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP; President - Kaslow Associates, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; Director, Florida Couples and Family Institute, West Palm Beach, Florida; Visiting Professor of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

Ronald Barnes, M.D., M.P.H. (Family Practice, Occupational & Environmental Medicine) completed his undergraduate training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Barnes received his medical degree from the Universidad del Noroeste in Tampico, Mexico. His internship was at the University of Health Sciences Chicago Medical School. His family practice residency training was at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, where he served as chief resident. He has also received an MPH degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Barnes is board eligible in both Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine. He is board certified in Forensic Medicine and is a certified Disability Analyst and Medical Review Officer.

Entering private practice in 1987, Dr Barnes has practiced in both rural & urban settings as a Family Medicine physician, Emergency Medicine physician and Occupational Medicine physician. He was the founding director of Northwoods Emergency Services in Northeast Wisconsin, and has initiated multiple Occupational Medicine practices. Dr. Barnes currently serves as the north region medical director of Occupational Medicine & Total Health for Aurora Health Care. He is currently on the medical staff at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay where he serves as Employee Health Director. He is the medical director for over 300 national & regional corporations, including the Manitowoc Corporation, Bay Ship Building, and Integrys Energy Corporation. He consults corporations & government agencies on issues ranging from preventive health, on-site clinics, disability to toxicology. He lectures frequently on multiple topics, but has a special interest in “equal rights for women & minorities in the workplace”. Hobbies include cross country skiing, tennis and writing. He is fluent in Spanish and is conversive in both Hungarian & German.


Our staff can assist you with all your travel arrangements.

Target Audience

Primary Care Physicians, Obstetricians, Gynecologists, Internists, Family Physicians, Nurses, Psychologists.

Program Purpose / Objectives

Program Purpose/Objectives: To provide a review of medical and psychological issues regarding women’s health issues encountered by the Family Physician and physicians in other specialties as well as psychologists and other health care personnel. To highlight and explore in depth current medical and psychological concerns of women in regard to themselves, their intimate relationships, their children and/or parents – such as anxiety disorders, sexual dysfunctions, affective disorders, eating disorders, migraine headaches, psycho-cardiology problems, and decisions regarding cosmetic surgery and chronic pain syndrome.

At the end of the activity participants should be able to:1. Discuss frequent areas of emotional difficulties that women face
2. Identify how self efficacy is intertwined with self confidence, self image and body image
3. Identify ways to manage stress and reduce overload throughout women’s life cycle
4. Provide guidelines for maximizing women’s mental health
6. Address the self in close relationships utilizing a loneliness to intimacy continuum
7. Care about and contribute to others by working within a family, friends, colleagues and community framework
8. Appropriately refer for individual, couples or family therapy
9. Asses periodically if therapy is helping
10. Evaluate if pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy or both is the best course of treatment
11. Discuss potential positive and negative psychological repercussions of cosmetic surgery

Approval: Continuing Education, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Continuing Education, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Conference Sessions generally take place during the days at sea (as cruise itinerary allows) to avoid conflicts with Ports of Call or evening entertainment.

Accreditation

Accreditation: Continuing Education, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Designation: Continuing Education, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing Contact Hours: Continuing Education, Inc., is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

EXCLUSIVE SHORE EXCURSIONS
Please note that our shore excursions are operated separately and independently of those offered by the cruise line.

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Questions? Call us at 800-422-0711.
We can assist you with all your travel arrangements. We'd be happy to help you plan your flights, hotels or tours before and/or after your cruise conference.

Cruise Itinerary
DATE
PORT
ARRIVE
DEPART
Tue Jun 2
Copenhagen, Denmark
Welcome reception 7:30-8:15pm
-
5:00pm
Wed Jun 3
Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany (no air to this port city)
6:00am
11:00pm
Thu Jun 4
At Sea: Lectures 8am-noon and 1-5pm
-
-
Fri Jun 5
Tallinn, Estonia
8:00am
5:00pm
Sat Jun 6
St. Petersburg, Russia (visa required)
7:00am
overnight
Sun Jun 7
St. Petersburg, Russia (visa required)
-
6:00pm
Mon Jun 8
Helsinki, Finland
6:00am
5:00pm
Tue Jun 9
Stockholm, Sweden
8:00am
5:00pm
Wed Jun 10
At Sea: Lectures 8am-noon and 1-5pm
-
-
Thu Jun 11
Kiel, Germany
Farewell reception 5:15-6pm
6:00am
5:00pm
Fri Jun 12
Copenhagen, Denmark
7:00am
-

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