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Professor of Medicine
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Crohn's and Colitis Center
Vice President, American Gastroenterological Association
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
This activity has been peer reviewed and the reviewer has no relevant financial relationships.
This activity is intended for gastroenterologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
The goal of this activity is that learners will be better able to fully understand the impact of UC on their patients' lives, particularly the extensive impact of bowel urgency. In addition, learners will gain competence on how to assess patients regarding the prevalence and impact of urgency on patient quality of life (QOL), and how to incorporate bowel urgency into an agreed treatment plan.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will:
Medscape, LLC requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Medscape policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Crohn's and Colitis Center
Vice President, American Gastroenterological Association
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
This activity has been peer reviewed and the reviewer has no relevant financial relationships.
Developed through a partnership between Medscape and Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.
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Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Aggregate participant data will be shared with commercial supporters of this activity.
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AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, you must receive a minimum score of 75% on the post-test.
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CME / ABIM MOC Released: 7/5/2022
Valid for credit through: 7/5/2023, 11:59 PM EST
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