Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Identify pertinent issues and topics that were relevant to the field of Infectious Disease over the past year.
Recognize key concepts revolving around above issues/topics, specifically those that pertain to the field of clinical internal medicine.
Review key changes in practice guidelines within the field of Infectious Disease over the past year.

Suggested Additional Reading:

Foy, BD et al. EID, 2011.

The Joint Commission https://www.jointcommission.org/prepublication_standards_antimicrobial_stewardship_standard/

CMS https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2016-Fact-sheets-items/2016-06-13.html.

Authors:

Neel B Shah, MD — Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Pittsburgh medical center
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals are awarded (0.1) continuing education units (CEU) which are equivalent to 1.0 contact hours.

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.