Clinical is for the same year Quiz ...

Clinical is for the same year Quiz questions are based forward selected articles in this issue of American Family Physician. Answers appear in this issue. AFP has been reviewed through the American Academy of Family Physicians as having appease acceptable for Prescribed credit. bound of approval from the beginning distribution date of February 15 2005 This issue has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 35 Prescribed credits. single in kind half of one credit conforms to AAFP criteria for evidence-based continuing medical education (EB CME) clinical satisfaction The amount of CME has been doubled to deliberate two-for-one credit for the EB CME portion solely When reporting CME credits, AAFP members should report total Prescribed credits earned for this activity. It is not necessary for members to label credits as EB CME for reporting purposes

The AAFP is accredited according to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide CME for physicians.

The AAFP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 35 Category 1 credits toward the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award (AMA/PRA). Each physician should claim solitary those credits that he or she actually exhausted in the activity.

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Each duplicate of AFP contains a Clinical Quiz answer card. AAFP members may use this card to obtain the designated number of Prescribed credit hours for the year in which the card is postmarked.

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Instructions

(1) Read each article, answer all questions forward the quiz pages, and transfer your answers to the Clinical Quiz answer card (bound into your model of AFP). This will help you avoid errors and permit you to check your answers against the correct answers.

(2) Mail the Clinical Quiz answer card within single year (by February 28, 2006) The bar digest on the answer card contains your identification for CME credit hours.

Before beginning the criterion please note: Each Clinical Quiz includes brace types of questions: Type A and emblem X.

Type A questions have alone one correct answer and may have four or five choices. Here is a typical mark A question:

Q1 in the greatest degree allergic reactions to foods are:

[] A. becoming to IgA deficiency.

[] B proper to IgG and IgM antibodies.

[[check]] C IgE-mediated.

[] D owing to enzyme deficiencies.

[] E owing to toxins.

exemplar X questions may have common or more correct answers. They are multiple true-false questions with four options. Here is a typical sign X question:

Q2 Causes of varicosities in pregnancy include:

[[check]] A. Hormonal changes.

[[check]] B Venous compression.

[[check]] C Familial tendency

[[check]] D defered sitting and standing.

Clinical Quiz questions are written at the associate and assistant editors of AFP.

shadow A Questions

Each question has solely one correct answer.

Articles

Care of Cancer Survivors (p 699)

Q1 Which united of the following is part of the follow-up make acceptableed by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) for a patient with breast cancer three years after surgery?

[] A. Annual clinical breast examination.

[] B Monthly breast self-examination.

[] C Annual physical examination.

[] D Mammography at six-month intervals.

Q2 the same year after a patient has resection of colon cancer, a well stocked [i]or[/i] provided assessment (including colonoscopy) reveals no evidence of return Assuming the patient remains symptom emancipated which one of the following statements correctly cogitates cur-rent NCCN recommendations for care in the nearest year?

[] A. History and physical examination should be reviewed each three months.

[] B Carcinoembryonic antigen flats should be rechecked after six months

[] C Colonoscopy should be repeated each year.

[] D Chest radiographs should be obtained after single year.

Management of Cluster Headache (p 717)

Q3 Which common of the following prophylactic treatments for episodic cluster headache is best supported at evidence from clinical studies?