Obesity

Disease Management Clinical Decisions

Obesity

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How to Obtain AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit™

  1. Complete the CME case-based lesson (each question must be answered correctly).
  2. Login to your account.
  3. Complete the credit and evaluation form.
  4. Print your personalized CME certificate.
  

Release Date:  July 1, 2009
Renewal Date:   August 19, 2011
Expiration Date:  August 19, 2012

Estimated Time of Completion: 30 minutes

Description

Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes an optional related reading material from The Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project or the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine; an interactive case; and an evaluation.

Throughout the interactive case-based lesson, you may proceed to the next question once you answer each question correctly. In addition to allowing you to proceed, the correct answer also reveals the rationale for the answer.

Upon completing the CME activity, the evaluation and registration forms, you will have an opportunity to print your CME certificate for your records.

Learning Objectives

  1. List the components of the metabolic syndrome.
  2. Diagnose nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in obesity.
  3. Discuss the treatment options for obesity.
  4. Perform preoperative evaluation for bariatric surgery.
  5. Discuss the risks and benefits of bariatric surgery.

Target Audience

Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners and internists.

Accreditation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Activity Director

Kenneth Goodman, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Associate Director, Research and Development - Center for Continuing Medical Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Authors / Faculty

Bipan Chand, MD
Director, Surgical Endoscopy
Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Amy Cha, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Disclosure

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty has indicated that he may have a relationship, which in the context of his presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Bipan Chand, MD
 

Ethicon, Sanofi-Aventis

Teaching & Speaking
 

Bard

Research

The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Kenneth Goodman, MD
Amy Cha, MD

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education.

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