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 according to the American Academy of Family Physicians as having educational make easy acceptable for Prescribed credit hours. mete of approval covers issues published within the same year from the beginning distribution date of January 2003 This issue has been approved for up to 35 Prescribed credit hours. Fifteen minutes of these credit hours conform to AAFP criteria for evidence-based CME clinical appease 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 by the agency of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The AAFP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 35 hours in Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim sole those hours of credit that he or she actually wearied 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 in succession completion and return of the Clinical Quiz answer card. AFP continues 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 acknowledge 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 in succession written request. You are responsible for reporting CME hours to your professional organization.

Note: The well stocked [i]or[/i] provided text of AFP is available online (www.aafp.org/afp), including each issue's Clinical Quiz. The table of peaces for each online issue will link you to the Clinical Quiz. Just run after the online directions to take the quiz and, if you're an AAFP member, you can submit your answers for CME credit.

Instructions

Read each article, answer all questions forward the quiz pages, and transfer your answers to the Clinical Quiz answer card (bound into your original 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 single in kind year (by August 31, 2004) The bar collection of laws on the answer card contains your identification for CME credit hours.

Before beginning the proof please note: Each Clinical Quiz includes brace 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 original A question: