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NOTES FROM THE EXECUTIVE TEAM Guest Column by Judy Thompson | Director of Clinical Education
This column allows the AVA Executive Team to keep you up to date on new member benefits on the horizon, our educational activities, AVA programs, services, advocacy, and other issues of interest. AVA is your professional home, and we always want to hear from you on how we can improve our services. Please email at cbrennan@avainfo.org and thutchison@avainfo.org.
As AVA wraps up 2021 and the second year of the pandemic, this is a good time to review the educational resources available to our members, nonmembers, faculty and students as well as industry partners. Let’s start with the AVA Scientific meeting. Our AVA D-Team did an amazing job with vetting and selecting the educational content of AVASM21. Our volunteers, leadership and Clinical Review Panel provided countless hours of expertise throughout the year to help develop and deliver continuing education (CE) content. As the staff leader of these efforts, I am grateful for their dedication and expertise. An important goal of the AVA strategic plan is to “Create Innovative Best Practice Education.” There are three objectives associated with this goal: 1) create online education for AVA Academy; 2) create print and digital resources; and 3) create larger vascular access visibility. I am pleased and proud to report we have delivered on these goals. Here are some highlights for 2021.
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CREATING ONLINE RESOURCES FOR AVA ACADEMY • Over 11 hours of continuing education with our live webinars on a broad range of high-demand subjects. If you missed the live events, these are on AVA Academy for both CE and non-CE viewing • 30 hours of continuing education with our Onthe-Road webinars delivered in partnership with our Networks and industry partnerships. • Four Industry Roundtables • Two CE webinars held in collaboration with the Canadian Vascular Access Association (CVAA) • 14 new hours of CE courses on AVA Academy, which were curated from some of the highly popular and rated courses from AVASM20 sessions CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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