Accreditation

0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

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 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity may be submitted for American Osteopathic Association Continuing Medical Education credit in Category 2.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for primary care physicians including family practitioners and internists.

Description / Overview

Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes a related chapter from The Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project, 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.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe the criteria for diagnosis of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
2. Outline other disorders that can mimic RA.
3. Define the most important diagnostic tests in evaluation of RA.
4. Develop a rationale for the use of newer medications for treatment of RA.
5. Recognize some of the rarer but life-threatening systemic complications of RA.
6. Summarize the limitations of contraindications of the disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

Activity Director

William D. Carey, MD
Director, Center for Continuing Education
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Authors / Faculty

W. Jean McKibben, MD; George W. Meyer, MD

Faculty 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 have indicated that they have no relationship, which in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Estimated Time of Completion

30 minutes