Medicine Today Internal Medicine Webcast Series

Medicine Today
Internal Medicine Webcast Series

Bariatric Surgery: Treatment of
Choice for the Metabolic Syndrome

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Release Date:  March 1, 2007
Renewal Date:  June 24, 2011
Expiration Date:  June 24, 2012

 

How to Obtain AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit™

  1. Watch the webcast.
  2. Complete the posttest (each question must be answered correctly).
  3. Login to your account.
  4. Complete the credit and evaluation form.
  5. Print your personalized CME certificate.

Technical Requirements

 

Estimated Time of Completion:  60 minutes

Description

The Medicine Today, Internal Medicine Webcast Series features on-demand CME webcasts. Each webcast consists of an hour-long video presentation and related questions following the video.

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

Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss the basic pathophysiology of the metabolic syndrome.
  2. Acquire recognition and appreciation of the major weight reduction operations performed currently.
  3. Describe complications and weight loss associated with bariatric surgery.
  4. Discuss the effect of bariatric surgery on components of the metabolic syndrome.
  5. Explain the role of bariatric surgery as a model for research into pathophysiologic mechanisms of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for general internists and subspecialists.

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 1.0AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim 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

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

Author / Faculty

Philip Schauer, MD
Director, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

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 presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

William D. Carey, MD
Philip Schauer, MD

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

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