This Continuing Education program is intended to educate mental health professionals about cancer, its treatment, and common symptoms and side-effects.  It is sponsored by APOS, with support from the Individual Cancer Assistance Network (ICAN), a philanthropic program of the Bristol Myers-Squibb Company designed to build community-based cancer counseling capacity to serve patients and their families.  The program has been developed through a generous educational grant from the Bristol Myers-Squibb Company.

Continuing Education Credits

At this time, APOS is not offering Continuing Education credits for these webcasts EXCEPT to NASW members as detailed below. Upon completion of the test and evaluation, non-NASW members will only be able to print for their records a certificate of completion from APOS.

NASW Members:

APOS is pleased to announce an exciting, new partnership with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) to offer continuing education social work contact hours to NASW members free of charge for the first three presentations in this program.  One contact hour is offered for each of the first three presentations.  The National Association of Social Workers is proud to offer this continuing education program to its members to increase awareness of the complexities surrounding the care for patients with cancer.  A limited number of continuing education certificates are available free of charge if you are a member of NASW.  Please have your member identification number ready when you register to receive your credit. 

Presentations

The objectives of this program are for participants to be able to:

• describe the etiology and incidence of cancer;
• examine treatment strategies for most common forms of cancer; and
• appreciate the incidence and management of common symptoms associated with cancer.