Last Sept. 12, 13, 14 in Socorro, NM I took Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support Classes sponsored by the Univ. of New Mexico Center for Disaster Medicine and for which I was supposed to get 21 contact hours Cont. ed. Well, after the classes concluded on the third day we each were given one certificate for each class with a blank space for us to fill in our names. No mention of any Continuing Ed. hours anywhere on the certificate. We were told by the course coordinator that we would get official cards from the AMA and certificates with the number of CEUs.
In November I called the UNM Center for Disaster Medicine to find out if mine had gotten lost or what. I was told that the AMA has
ONE SECRETARY TYPING UP ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS FOR EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!! I JUST SENT ANOTHER EMAIL TO THIS PERSON AT THE UNIV.OF NEW MEXICO BECAUSE 5 MONTHS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND I THINK THE ENTIRE THING IS A BIG SCAM. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT IF ANY OF YOU ARE CONSIDERING TAKING THESE CLASSES, WHICH ARE LISTED OFFERED BY AN ORGANIZATION CALLED "Crest" and are listed as Basic Disaster Life Support and Advanced Disaster Life Support , don't take it.
Although it had some good information, I cannot imagine that a professional organization would have one lone secretary (who has other duties as well) in sole charge of sending out thousands of documentation to students who have taken these classes.
The person at U of New Mexico said that the secretary was slammed with 6 classes back to back after ours in September.
if that is even true, you can bet that the class that I took in September which was one of the first has been delegated to the bottom of the pile or perhaps even further down to the bottom of the waste basket.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ANY OF YOU OUT THERE HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEMS GETTING YOUR CEU'S FROM THE AMA/CREST.
Thanks, Celeste 7767
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