Clinical Quiz questions are based f...

Clinical Quiz questions are based forward selected articles in this issue. Answers appear in this issue.

American Family Physician has been approved from the American Academy of Family Physicians as having educational peace acceptable for Prescribed credit hours. limit of approval covers issues published within undivided year from the beginning distribution date of January 2003 This issue has been approved for up to 45 Prescribed credit hours. Credit may be claimed for common year from the date of this issue. When reporting CME credit hours, AAFP members should report total Prescribed credit hours earned for this activity. It is not necessary for members to label credit hours as evidence-based CME Prescribed for CME reporting purposes

The American Academy of Family Physicians is accredited according to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The AAFP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 45 hours in Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim single those hours of credit that he or she actually exhausted in the educational activity.

AAFP Credit

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.

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 credit hours in Category 1 of the AMA/PRA forward completion and return of the Clinical Quiz answer card. AFP holds a record of AMA/PRA Category 1 credit hours for nonmember physicians. This record will be provided forward request; however, nonmembers are responsible for reporting their possess 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 at AAFP and will be provided to you upon written request. You are responsible for reporting CME hours to your professional organization.

Instructions

Read each article, answer all questions upon 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.

A Mail the Clinical Quiz answer card within united year (by September 30, 2004) The bar digest on the answer card contains your identification for CME credit hours.

Before beginning the proof please note: Each Clinical Quiz includes sum of two units types of questions: Type A and original X.

Type A questions have no other than one correct answer and may have four or five choices. Here is a typical impressed sign A question: