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Dr. John Walkup's
"Diagnosing & Treating Tourette Syndrome"
wins AAMC's MedEdPORTAL approval

TSA's webstream (Flash presentation of video + slideshow), "Diagnosing and Treating Tourette Syndrome" with Dr. John Walkup, Associate Professor at the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Chairman of TSA's Medical Advisory Board, will now be a featured resource on AAMC's prestigious MedEdPORTAL. Tourette Syndrome information will now be available through the portal to enable professors and deans of medical education to include information about Tourette Syndrome when developing programs and materials. Dr. Walkup's video, originally filmed at SUNY Downstate in July 2005 also offers CME credit (available through Downstate for a $20 fee). Filming and web production was made possible by TSA's partnership with the CDC (U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) for the education of medical and allied professionals.

The approval, as of April 25th, 2007, entitles TSA to proudly display the AAMC logo with Dr. Walkup's presentation:

and text: This Resource Successfully Peer Reviewed by MedEdPORTAL on 4/25/07
MedEdPORTAL Publication Number: 576

From the AAMC website:
"The AAMC works to ensure that the structure, content, and conduct of medical education meet the highest standards and keep pace with the changing needs of patients and the nation's health care system. AAMC resources assist the leadership, faculty and administrators of medical schools and teaching hospitals in accomplishing their educational missions. MedEdPORTAL is a resource designed to help faculty publish and share educational resources. A long standing priority of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs, MedEdPORTAL is the only resource that focuses exclusively on the continuum of medical education and addresses the unique needs of medical educators. MedEdPORTAL was designed to promote collaboration and educational scholarship by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, cases, lab manuals, assessment instruments, faculty development materials, etc. MedEdPORTAL contains information about published resources and indicates how these materials may be accessed or obtained by interested faculty."

AAMC's website will link to TSA's Medical Education webpage http://tsa-usa.org/meded/, a registration page for Medical Professionals. Upon registration, users are given access to Dr. Walkup's video presentation, along with other webstream presentations (some with available CME, CNE credit) and other medical professional resources.

The AAMC website's MedEdPORTAL gives professional and public users FREE access to this and other Medical Education resources. The link to Dr. Walkup's webstream on TSA's site will take effect in mid-may, 2007, and be accessible through the MedEdPORTAL "Search" feature, or through the direct link: http://services.aamc.org/jsp/mededportal/retrieveSubmissionDetailById.do?subId=576.