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Activity Steps

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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Differentiate pilonidal disease from other disease processes with similar presentations
  2. Compare and discuss nonoperative therapy and nonoperative adjuncts
  3. Explain the various operative approaches to pilonidal disease
  4. Distinguish between the management of acute and chronic or recurrent pilonidal disease

Disclosures

All faculty, staff, and planners, including spouses/partners (if any), in any position to control the content of this CME activity have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with, or financial interests in, any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Price: $10.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.5 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: DCR0219
Published: February 2018
Expires: 1/1/2026
Collections: Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (Collection) , March National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Sources: Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
Required Passing Score: 6/8 (75%)
Authors: Eric K. Johnson, M.D., Jon D. Vogel, M.D., Michelle L. Cowan, M.D., Daniel L. Feingold, M.D., and Scott R. Steele, M.D., M.B.A.
Specialties: Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Surgical
Topics: Chronic Illness