Academic Credit from Affiliated Organizations:
Individuals
Members of the WMS may receive academic credit toward the FAWM curriculum and registry in the following ways:
- Attend and submit certificates for educational activities hosted or directly sponsored by the WMS (i.e. conferences, courses, seminars, workshops, or the Resident-Student Elective).
- Complete lesson and exam material offered on-line via the WMS (Academy web site). A limited number of these will be made available for credit toward the registry.
- Attend educational activities hosted by an organization affiliated with the WMS for FAWM credit (see below) and submit a certificate of attendance (i.e. CME, graduation, or course completion certificate). See Eligible Activities for a current listing of eligible activities.
Note: Individuals must become a member of the WMS either before or during the activity for which affiliate credit review is requested. This includes retroactive review for credit.
As a service to our FAWM candidates, the 31 December 2005 deadline for requesting retroactive review of activities for FAWM credit has been eliminated. The Academy will continue to accept requests for retroactive review for courses going back 5 years from the date the application is received. The same FAWM eligibility rules continue to apply.
Affiliating Organizations
Organizations that affiliate with the WMS for FAWM credit are encouraged to advertise as offering educational content that is accepted for credit by the WMS Academy’s Registry of Wilderness Medicine Practitioners and Fellowship Program (FAWM) and agree to allow their name and specific activity to be listed on the WMS web site as a FAWM affiliate organization. Contact the WMS administrative office for advertising assistance (fawm@wms.org).
Organizations requesting review of their course content for FAWM credit will submit lesson materials to the Academy electronically (fawm@wms.org). This will include a written syllabus with clearly written educational objectives for each lesson. Academic credit will be accepted for those sessions with content that closely matches topics from the Academy’s core curriculum or support the educational mission, vision, and goals of the WMS and the academic discipline. Partial or full credit may be granted. Each lesson will be reviewed and assigned a unique identification number in accordance with the core curriculum. Some lessons may be accepted for credit but only count for purposes of the FAWM registry as electives.
Affiliation Fees
Wilderness Medicine educational organizations affiliate for each hosted or sponsored activity (conference, course, workshop, seminar, etc) separately. Organizations that hold multiple iterations of the same course using the same basic curriculum and lesson objectives will pay a one time curriculum review fee (see below).
FAWM affiliation guidelines are carefully established in order to offer equitable options to all types and sizes of WM educational organizations irrespective of their profit or non-profit status. FAWM affiliation fees included in these guidelines do not apply to affiliation arrangements in place prior to 15 August 2005. Separate fees for FAWM credit do not apply to educational activities conducted in conjunction with and/or in direct support of a WMS conference (i.e. pre or post-conference courses, seminars, or workshops advertised as part of the conference). Separate fees are not required for pre or post-conference educational activities or sessions conducted in direct support of non-WMS events already affiliated for FAWM credit by a principal sponsoring organization.
Organizations have three basic options to secure an academic affiliation with the WMS.
OPTION 1: Purchase CME credits from the WMS without FAWM credit evaluation of sessions. Current WMS CME fees include:
· $35 per attendee
· $200 Application fee (non-refundable)
· $500 CME Curriculum review fee
At this time this option remains separate from the FAWM credit review and affiliation process. Contact the WMS administrative office for information (fawm@wms.org) on how to purchase WMS CME credit.
*Note: Participants that attend activities for which this “CME only” option was chosen by the sponsoring organization will not be eligible to have these activities applied toward the FAWM registry.
OPTION 2: Purchase CME Credits from the WMS with FAWM credit evaluation of sessions.
· CME fees apply (requires a separate CME review and purchase process)
· $3 per registrant that submits for FAWM credit (reduced price)
· FAWM curriculum review fee:
$40 for activities with up to 8 total contact hours
$70 for activities with 9-16 total contact hours
$150 for activities with over 16 total contact hours
OPTION 3: Apply for FAWM credit evaluation of sessions ONLY without CME.
· $5 per registrant that submits for FAWM credit
· FAWM curriculum review fee
$40 for activities with up to 8 total contact hours
$70 for activities with 9-16 total contact hours
$150 for activities with over 16 total contact hours
Note: The curriculum review fee is a one time administrative charge for each course or academic activity. Organizations that hold multiple iterations of the same course or event (i.e. a WALS, WFR, AWLS courses) per year will be assessed the fee one time only but will pay for each FAWM candidate that submits for credit.
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