Clinical Quiz questions are based ...

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

American Family Physician has been approved on the American Academy of Family Physicians as having educational satisfy acceptable for Prescribed credit hours. word of approval covers issues published within undivided year from the beginning distribution date of January 2003 This issue has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 4 Prescribed credit hours. Credit may be claimed for undivided 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 or Prescribed for CME reporting purposes

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

The AAFP designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4 hours in Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim and nothing else those hours of credit that he or she actually exhausted in the educational 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 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 onward 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 upon 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 subscribers, a record of CME credit is kept by dint of AAFP and will be provided to you onward written request. You are responsible for reporting CME hours to your professional organization.

NOTE: The abounding text of AFP is available online (www.aafp.org/afp), including each issue's Clinical Quiz. The table of satisfactions for each online issue will link you to the Clinical Quiz. Just tread in the steps of 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 transcript 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 January 31, 2004) The bar digest on the answer card contains your identification for CME credit hours.

Before beginning the ordeal please note:

Each Clinical Quiz includes pair types of questions: Type A and emblem X.

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