Women's Health Grand Rounds

Preconception Care

Program:

Pre-pregnancy care is an increasingly recognized need with both clinical and public health significance. The goal of this program is to improve health care providers’ knowledge, understanding, and practice of preconception care as a means of improving pregnancy outcomes for women and children. The conference builds on a Preconception Care Curriculum developed at Montefiore Medical Center for the March of Dimes.

Speaker:

Cynthia Chazotte, MD, Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, Director of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center

Moderator: Mary Applegate, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Bureau of Women's Health, NYS Department of Health

Objectives:
After viewing the broadcast, participants will be able to:

• describe the importance of routine preconception care
• list at least 2 potential benefits of preconception care on pregnancy outcomes
• identify at least 2 barriers that exist to providing preconception care with emphasis on “at risk” groups
• identify at least 2 risk factors in a preconception evaluation
• list at least 1 way to integrate preconception care into their routine practices

Satellite broadcast originally aired Feb. 27, 2003

The School of Public Health, University at Albany, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 category one credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

This Educational Activity is presented by the School of Public Health Continuing Education, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Associations' Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses' Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. It has been designated for 1 contact hour and has been assigned code 5TLL8T-PRV-04-049.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive up to 1 Category I CECH in health education.