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General Information

You are not required to complete this Case Study Module in one sitting. Our site will track your progress and allow you to log out, then log in at a later date to complete your Case Study Module. You will have one (1) year from your purchase date to complete your purchased Case Study Module. This Case Study Module will take approximately one (1) hour to complete, and is in a case study/response quiz format. In order to receive credit for completing the module, after reading the case studies, you will be required to complete the quiz presented at the end of the Case Study Module.

Target Audience: Physicians, and other health professionals.

Medium Used: Proprietary E-Learning Software

Hardware/Software Requirements: A computer running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla Firefox 1.0, or Apple Safari 1.2 or higher. Your web browser must be capable of using cookies and be set to accept cookies from the lawandmed.com domain name. The browser must also be capable of accessing web sites secured using 128-bit secure sockets layer.

Release Date: September 2008

Review Date: July 2021

Termination date: July 2024

CME Granting Organization:

Please contact us with questions regarding your access to the Case Study Module.

Law and Medicine Media, LLC
P.O. Box 401
Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033

Tel: 1-800-808-8525

Website: www.lawandmed.com; info@lawandmed.com

About the Author

The following Case Study Module has been prepared by Victor R. Cotton, MD, JD. Dr. Cotton has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and 10 years of experience as a healthcare attorney.

CME Accreditation Information

ACCME
Accreditation Statement. Law & Medicine Media, LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the ACCME by Law and Medicine Media, LLC. Law and Medicine Media, LLC designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category I Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the continuing medical education activity.

CME Conflict of Interest Statement

In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards, Law and Medicine Media, LLC requires faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of Law and Medicine Media, LLC CME activities to disclose to the participant whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflicts of interest or other relationships, including relationships with any manufacturer of any commercial product, related to the content of this CME activity.

With respect to this CME activity, the following disclosures were obtained:

Victor R. Cotton, MD, JD – Author/Speaker: Speakers Bureau, Boston Scientific
Gina S. Breslin – Education Director: Nothing to disclose
Anne L.L. Dillman, JD – Compliance Officer: Nothing to disclose
David Superdock, MD – Advisory Committee Member: Nothing to disclose
R. Scott Owens, MD – Advisory Committee Member: Speakers Bureau, Pfizer
Marjorie Donahue, MD – Advisory Committee Member: Nothing to disclose
Anastasius Peter, MD – Advisory Committee Member: Nothing to disclose
Keith Minnich, MD – Advisory Committee Member: Nothing to disclose
Joy C.L. Cotton, MD – Advisory Committee Member: Nothing to disclose
Lisa Tkatch, MD – Advisory Committee Member: Nothing to disclose

No other person was in a position to control the content, presentation or evaluation of this educational activity.

Statement Regarding Commercial Support

Law and Medicine Media, LLC has not received commercial support of any kind related to the preparation or dissemination of this online module. This entire activity was financially supported by Law and Medicine Media, LLC. This activity does not include a discussion of unapproved uses of drugs or devices.

Confidentiality Policy

Law and Medicine Media, LLC shall not, directly or indirectly, share any information regarding the identity of a participating learner in a CME activity, except in the following situations:

As required by contractual provision (such as by an agreement with the participant’s employer);

As required to provide appropriate continuing medical education credit to the participant; and/or

As required by law.

Instructions

In order to earn CME credit(s) you must:

 Complete the Case Study Module;

 Receive at least a 67% score on the post-material quiz;

 Complete the Case Study Module Evaluation at the end of the module.

 Goals and Objectives

After the conclusion of this module, the learner should be able to: 

1. Describe the situations in which a suspension of clinical privileges will result in a Data Bank entry
2. Determine the situations in which a resignation of clinical privileges will result in a report to the Data Bank
3. Describe the situations in which the termination of a clinician’s employment must be reported to the Data Bank