The Most Widely Misunderstood Tests

Medical Grand Rounds

Presenter(s):

  

Lee Reichman, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health,
Executive Director, New Jersey Medical School, Global Tuberculosis Institute, Newark, New Jersey

When:

  

Friday, January 25, 2013

Time:

  

12:00 p.m.

Where:

  

Auditorium, Patterson Education Building, Sayre, PA

Videoconferenced to: Big Flats, Corning Centerway, Corning Hospital, Ithaca, & Troy Community Hospital, Pine City and Wellsboro

(Lunch will be provided)

Description:

  

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Describe the role and limitations of the Mantoux Tuberculosis Test and IGRA’s.
  • Recognize the epidemiology of Latent Tuberculosis.
  • Identify treatment for Latent Tuberculosis infection and its indications and limitations against the background of a TB outbreak in a health care setting.

This Program is intended for:

 

General Internists, Family Practitioners, Medical Specialists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Fellows, Residents, Medical and Nursing Students, and other Healthcare Professionals.

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Accreditation Statement:

  

"Guthrie Health is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians."

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Designation Statement:

 

"Guthrie Health designates this live activity for a maximum of (1.0) AMA PRA Category I Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity."

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Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Statement:

  

"Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Guthrie Health are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

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