Faculty
Advisor
Berrylin J. Ferguson, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–
Head and Neck Surgery
Chief, Division of Sinonasal Disorders and Allergy
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Target Audience:
This program was created for physicians who treat high numbers of patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma.
Fee: There is no fee
for participating in this educational activity.
Term of Offering:
Category 1 CME credit
for this newsletter will be available through August 4, 2003. The
original release date of this material was August 5, 2002. Continuing
education credit is offered upon successful completion of the
post-test.
Upon successful completion of the post-test
(a score of 70% or better), evaluation form, and enrollment form, you
may print out your certificate. If you have any questions, please call
the Pragmaton Office of Medical Education
Faculty
Berrylin J. Ferguson, MD
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–
Head and Neck Surgery
Chief, Division of Sinonasal Disorders and Allergy
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Top Learning ObjectivesUpon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
Describe the etiology of allergic rhinitis, with and without coexisting asthma, and characteristic symptomatology
Differentiate
among types of allergic rhinitis, other upper respiratory conditions,
and lower-airway disease that may confound the diagnosis
Outline key components of the evaluation of patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma
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Sponsor
This activity is sponsored by the Pragmaton Office
of Medical Education and is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc.
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Accreditation StatementsPhysician Accreditation Statement
The Pragmaton Office of Medical Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
(ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Physician Designation Statement
The Pragmaton Office of
Medical Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1
hour in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.
Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she
actually spent in the educational activity.
Other Healthcare Professional Statement
A certificate of participation for 1 hour will be issued for all
healthcare professionals not covered by the listed accreditation
statements.
This activity may include information
regarding the use of products that may be inconsistent with or outside
the approved labeling for these products in the United States.
Participants should note that uses of these products outside the current
approved labeling are considered experimental and are advised to
consult prescribing information for these products.
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Faculty Disclosure
PolicyIt is the policy of the Pragmaton Office
of Medical Education that faculty members of CME/CE-accredited programs
must disclose any significant financial interest, arrangement, or
affiliation with a corporate organization that may have an impact on the
faculty member’s presentation, such as grants, research support,
honoraria, member of speakers’ bureau, consultant, major stock
shareholder, etc.
Faculty Disclosure
Berrylin J. Ferguson, MD
Formal advisor: GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Merck and
Co., Inc.; Research: GlaxoSmithKline; Educational materials development:
Aventis Pharmaceuticals; Speakers’ bureau: Aventis Pharmaceuticals,
Pfizer Inc.
Back to TopPragmaton Office of Medical Education Mission
StatementThe Pragmaton Office of Medical
Education (POME) is the accredited provider of continuing professional
development programs within Pragmaton, a medical communications company.
Pragmaton’s parent company, the Corbett Healthcare Group, provides
organizational support to POME and refers to this support in its mission
statement.
POME’s mission is to develop and implement clinically
oriented educational activities for a multidisciplinary national
audience. These activities must be medically accurate, scientifically
rigorous, and fair balanced. POME engages a CME advisory board, composed
of physicians and pharmacists, as an external monitor to ensure that
our educational activities meet the highest standards.
POME’s educational activities focus on disease states and
therapeutic regimens in areas including, but not limited to, women’s
health, neurology, rheumatology, pulmonology, and pain management. Our
audiences include primary and specialty care physicians, nurses,
pharmacists, and other allied health care professionals. We use a wide
variety of program formats, including live scientific symposia; print-,
multimedia-, and Internet-based self-study programs; and interactive
audioconferences, to meet the individual learning preferences of our
audience members. Through these educational activities, we expect
participants to gain new knowledge and skills that can be applied
clinically toward improving their professional practices and enhancing
patient care. We use immediate postactivity evaluations to determine
participant satisfaction and to monitor the ever-changing educational
needs of health care professionals. These evaluations also gather
baseline data for follow-up surveys that are conducted to assess whether
health care providers have adopted new clinical practices as a result
of participating in our activities.
Back to TopPragmaton Office of Medical Education Privacy Policy
The Pragmaton Office of Medical
Education (POME) does not sell or offer any user data, including
registration or billing information to any third party for commercial
purposes. POME does, where required, provide the minimum subset of
information to those third parties that are responsible for
accreditation and issuance of certification of Continuing Education
tests submitted. You agree that POME has full permission to provide this
minimum subset of information to the third parties as required by
law.
To provide additional security in those cases where a credit
card number or other form of payment has been submitted, POME utilizes
this information once, but does not permanently store this information.
Therefore, it will be necessary for you to reenter billing information
during subsequent visits. Although this may create a minor
inconvenience, POME believes that security should be first and foremost
in the provision of its services and therefore will not store billing
information permanently in its records.
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