Program Objectives

• Describe recent clinical study results and guidelines and their application in primary care
• Identify diagnostic and treatment strategies for common conditions encountered in the primary care setting
• Apply new data to clinical case reports to enhance practice performance and improve patient outcomes
  

Accreditation Information
Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University School of Medicine is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Contact Hours: 6.0.

Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University School of Medicine's provider status refers only to continuing nursing education activities and does not imply that there is real or implied endorsement of any product, service, or company referred to in this activity nor of any company subsidizing costs related to the activity.

This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 6.0 hours of AAPA Category I CME credit by the Physician Assistant Review Panel. Physician assistants should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.

This program was planned in accordance with AAPA’s CME Standards for Live Programs and for Commercial Support of Live Programs.

Duke University School of Medicine Office of CME (DukeCME) is co-provider for the IBS-C program.

Practicing Clinicians Exchange (PCE) is an innovative national educational initiative designed specifically for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). PCE’s premier series of live, national CE/CME symposia and other educational activities revolve around challenges NPs and PAs face most often in clinical practice. PCE is a division of Continuing Education Alliance.

This program was made possible by independent educational grants from: Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc–Eli Lilly and Company, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Inc., sanofi-aventis, Sanofi Pasteur, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.–Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.

Practicing Clinicians Exchange gratefully acknowledges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and DIME for their contributions as education partners for this program.