Disease Management Clinical Decisions
Screening Mammography:
Putting Guidelines into Practice
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Expiration Date: March 18, 2013
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Estimated Time of Completion: 15 minutes
Description
Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes related reading material, 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
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Explain the basic terminology of breast cancer screening techniques.
- Highlight current evidence and recommendations for breast cancer screening.
- Review the recent controversy surrounding screening mammography recommendations.
Target Audience
Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners.
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 educational activity for a maximum of 0.25 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
Associate Director
Center for Continuing Medical Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Author
Michael S. Cowher, MD
Breast Center, Womens Health Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Jill R. Dietz, MD
Breast Center, Womens Health Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Joseph P. Crowe, MD
Breast Center, Womens Health Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Disclosures
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 have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
Michael S. Cowher, MD
Joseph P. Crowe, MD
Jill R. Dietz, MD
Kenneth Goodman, MD
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education.
