AAAAI - Members Center: Academy News: December 1999 -
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Published on: 6/15/2001
Last Visited: 5/29/2002
Marla Tobin, M.D., Medical Director of Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Kansas City
The seminar series for the Practical Guide initiative kicked off in September in Brookfield, WI, following two successful pilot programs held in June to test the effectiveness of the program's interactive, case study-based format.
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Considering the popularity of the Overland Park seminar, other primary care physicians will undoubtedly benefit from such educational opportunities in the allergy and immunology field, said Marla Tobin, M.D., Medical Director of Aetna U.S. Healthcare in Kansas City."It's the interactive nature of the program that allowed a lot of our physicians to discuss the things they had been seeing in their offices and to reference the Practical Guide regarding how they had been dealing with these things in the past, and now, in the future," Tobin said."Asthma is such a common problem today that I think everyone can relate to the cases.That makes for a good learning experience.And the step-by-step nature of the guide makes a very logical presentation that any practice could implement."