Firefighters & Cancer: Overview & Guide for Physicians & Healthcare Providers

Overview:

Firefighters & Cancer: Overview & Guide for Physicians & Healthcare Providers

Rachelle Garcia-Hamblin, MD

A healthcare provider’s guide to occupational firefighter cancer prevention including epidemiology, risk factors, solutions, updates to the law, and firefighter cancer screening guidelines

After this presentation, attendees will be able to:

1. Understand the scope of occupational cancer in the fire service
2. Identify risk factors for occupational cancer in firefighters
3. Identify solutions for health care providers to help prevent occupational cancer in firefighters
4. Understand the differences between USPSTF cancer screening guidelines and firefighter occupational cancer screening guidelines
5. Learn about new Texas laws for occupational cancer screening in firefighters

Presenter:

Rachelle Garcia-Hamblin, MD
San Antonio Fire and Police
Retiree Health & Wellness

 

Disclosure to Learners:

Speaker: Rachelle Garcia-Hamblin, MD, has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Planning Committee members: Mark Nadeau, MD, MBA; Nehman Andry, MD; Maria Del Pilar Montanez Villacampa, MD; Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD; Yun Shi, MD, PhD; Fozia Ali, MD; Richel Avery, MD; Nida Hussain, MD; Christine Camacho, MD; Angelica Davila, MD; Patrick Yoon, MD; and Kelsi Sexton, MA, MEd have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The University of Texas at San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The University of Texas at San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Kelsi Sexton Barajas- TAFP FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: sextonk@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu