CME test - continuing medical education

Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, Nov, 2003

Sponsored by the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education

To obtain CME credits, complete the test below, following these guidelines:

1. Read each article carefully.

2. Choose the most appropriate response to each of the following questions and record these on the registration form. Unanswered questions are considered incorrect.

3. Send the completed registration form and your payment (check, money order. VISA, MasterCard, American Express) to the Center for Continuing Education, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).

4. After your test has been graded, you will receive a receipt, a copy of the correct answers, and a credit statement certifying completion from the UNMC. Questions about the test should be addressed to UNMC Center for Continuing Education (402-559-4152).

Credit: The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the ACCME Essentials.

1. Based on this month's Imaging Clinic by
Palacios et al, the least common cause of facial
nerve paralysis is:

a. facial nerve hemangioma
b. Bell's palsy
c. acoustic neuroma
d. facial neuroma

2. With which of the following statements
regarding laryngeal amyloidosis would Akst
and Thompson (Pathology Clinic) disagree?

a. It is rare.
b. It is multifocal in up to 5% of patients.
c. It occurs equally often in men and women.
d. It is benign.

3. Christmas et al (Rhinoscopic Clinic) recommend
removal of all maxillary sinus cysts and
polyps via middle meatal antrostomy with an
angled microdebrider.

True or False?

4. According to Belafsky and Speirs in this
month's Esophagoscopy Clinic, normal
laryngeal sensory thresholds are:

a.