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 dint of the American Academy of Family Physicians as having educational ease acceptable for Prescribed credit. confine of approval covers issues published within common year from the beginning distribution date of January 2004 This issue has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 3 Prescribed credits. single in kind half of one credit conforms to AAFP criteria for evidence-based CME satisfaction 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 Prescribed for CME reporting purposes

The American Academy of Family Physicians is accredited by way of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education 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 barely those credits that he or she actually exhausted in the activity.

AAFP Credit

Each transcript 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 continuing medical education 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 in succession completion and return of the Clinical Quiz answer card. AFP retains 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 confess 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 subscribers, a record of CME credit is kept from AAFP and will be provided to you onward written request. You are responsible for reporting CME credits to your professional organization.

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