Clinical Quiz questions are based ...

Clinical Quiz questions are based in succession selected articles in this issue. Answers appear in this issue. American Family Physician has been approved by means of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) as having educational easy in mind acceptable for Prescribed credit. approval screens issues published within one year from the beginning distribution date of January 2004 This issue has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 3 Prescribed credits. 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 evidence-based or Pre-scribed for CME reporting purposes

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

The AAFP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3 Category 1 credits toward the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim simply those credits that he or she actually exhausted in the activity.

AAFP Credit

Each original 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.

AMA/PRA Category 1 Credit

AAFP members who satisfy the Academy's CME requirements are automatically eligible for the AMA/PRA.

Physicians who are not members of the AAFP are eligible to receive the designated number of credits in Category 1 of the AMA/PRA upon completion and return of the Clinical Quiz answer card. AFP withholds a record of AMA/PRA Category 1 credits for nonmember physicians. This record will be provided forward request; however, nonmembers are responsible for reporting their concede Category 1 CME credits when applying for the AMA/PRA or other certificates or credentials.

For health care professionals who are not physicians and are AFP sub-scribers, a record of CME credit is kept by the agency of AAFP and will be provided to you forward written request. You are responsible for reporting CME credits to your professional organization.

Note: The sated text of AFP is available online (http://www.aafp.org/afp), including each issue's Clinical Quiz. The table of eases for each online issue will link you to the Clinical Quiz. Just succeed the online directions to take the quiz and, if you're an AAFP member, you can submit your answers for CME credit.

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 archetype 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 united year (by December 31, 2005) The bar digest on the answer card contains your identification for CME credit hours.

Before beginning the standard please note: Each Clinical Quiz includes couple types of questions: Type A and exemplar X.

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