Purpose
Real-life stories and practical resources to empower individuals in their journey to quit smoking. By sharing experiences and evidence-based strategies, we aim to support tobacco cessation efforts and promote healthier lifestyles.
The National Medical Association (NMA) is excited to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2023 Tips From Former Smokers® (Tips®) campaign. CDC estimates that 16.4 million people who smoke have attempted to quit and one million people have successfully quit because of the Tips® campaign.
The campaign shares stories of real people living with the serious long-term health effects from smoking and secondhand smoke exposure.
Starting on March 6, Tips® campaign ads were placed on broadcast and cable TV, streaming audio, and digital and social media channels including CDC Tobacco Free on Facebook and Twitter. Throughout this year, the NMA will be sharing Tips® campaign information, materials, and smoking cessation resources with its members.
Many patients of NMA members have already seen Tips® ads. Our physicians can expand the impact of these ads by using CDC’s campaign tools, materials, and resources in their patient interactions and, in so doing, providing the motivation, reasons, and resources to quit.
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Cigarette smoking alone kills more than 480,000 Americans each year. And for every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness. The Tips® campaign seeks to address health disparities in pursuit of health equity by increasing the reach, representation, receptivity, and accessibility of smoking cessation messages. Tips® also increases awareness of free quit-smoking resources among adults.
The National Medical Association is committed to supporting smoking cessation, reducing health disparities related to commercial tobacco use, and advancing health equity. For more information about the Tips® campaign please visit, CDC.gov/Tips.
Why This Matters
Smoking doesn’t just kill; it can disable, disfigure, and rob people who smoke of their independence. By providing information, resources, and motivation, the Tips®campaign has proven to be highly effective in helping people across the country quit smoking.
Empowering Tobacco Cessation
Fact Sheets: Informative Resources for Informed Healthcare Decisions
Join us in supporting tobacco cessation efforts and empowering individuals to live healthier, smoke-free lives.
Online Education
The National Medical Association (NMA) is pleased to offer the following Accredited and Non-Accredited educational presentations to our members and visitors. This online platform is designed as an opportunity for our partners to present the latest in medical treatment options and further discussions on specific disease states.
Please click here to navigate to the current video presentation theater offerings.
PACT Initiative
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CME
The purpose of the William E. Matory, Sr., M.D, Continuing Medical Education Program of the National Medical Association is to contribute toward the professional development of practicing physicians, academicians, researchers, basic scientists, residents, fellows, students and other health professionals in primary, secondary and tertiary health care. Reports of topics and systems designed to correct health care disparities are emphasized. Throughout its history, the National Medical Association has focused, primarily on the improvement of healthcare for African Americans and other underserved populations. However, its principles, goals, initiatives and philosophy encompass all sectors of the population and contribute to optimal healthcare for all.
Accreditation with Commendation
The National Medical Association has been reviewed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and awarded Accreditation with Commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Accreditation in the ACCME System seeks to assure the medical community and the public that the National Medical Association delivers education that is relevant to clinicians’ needs, evidence-based, evaluated for its effectiveness, and independent of commercial influence.
The ACCME System employs a rigorous process for evaluating institutions’ CME programs according to standards that reflect the values of the educator community and aim to accelerate learning, inspire change, and champion improvement in healthcare. Through participation in accredited CME, clinicians and teams drive improvement in their practice and optimize the care, health, and wellness of their patients.
CME Activities
CME activities offered by the NMA include live educational activities (such as conferences lectures, symposia, and workshops), journal-based CME, and web-based CME. Live activities include the Annual Scientific Assembly, Annual Regional Meetings, and state/local society meetings. For a listing of upcoming NMA CME activities please see the schedule below.
Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly
The National Medical Association’s Scientific Assembly is acclaimed as the nation’s foremost forum on medical science and African American health. Each year, more than 5,000 African American physicians and other health professionals from across the country convene to participate in the scholarly exchange of medical advances and to develop health policy agenda for the coming year.
Through NMA’s 25 Scientific Specialty Sections, the NMA Convention and Scientific Assembly attracts the broadest spectrum of African American physicians, academicians and scientists in the country. The scientific program opens on a Saturday with special postgraduate courses and workshops, and continues through the following Wednesday with 25 concurrent Scientific Specialty sections ranging from Aerospace and Military Medicine to Women’s Health.
Annual Regional Meetings
The organizational structure of the NMA provides an established national network of affiliated community-based organizations with a powerful reach within African American communities across the nation. The NMA has 33 state and 98 local affiliated medical societies across the nation. The state and local societies are segmented into six geographic NMA regions. Each of the six regions holds an annual meeting in the spring.
CME Resource Links
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Alliance for Continuing Medical Education in the Health Professions
American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Maintenance of Certification
AdvaMed Code of Ethics on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals
Council of Medical Specialty Societies
International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
National Commission for the Certification of CME Professionals, Inc.
