FREE CE - What are the Key Differences in Statins?
Posted about 3 years ago by Rick Ramirez in Education
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Please see below for this FREE CE content form Medscape!
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Let’s Make a Deal: Breaking Down the Statins for Improved Therapy Selection
- Authors: Harold Edward Bays MD, FOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC; Joyce L. Ross, CRNP, CLS; Barbara S. Wiggins, PharmD, FACC
- CME / ABIM MOC / CE Released: 6/14/2021
- Valid for credit through: 6/14/2022
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Credits Available
Physicians - maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
ABIM Diplomates - maximum of 0.50 ABIM MOC points
Nurses - 0.50 ANCC Contact Hour(s) (0.25 contact hours are in the area of pharmacology)
Pharmacists - 0.50 Knowledge-based ACPE (0.050 CEUs)
IPCE - 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit
You Are Eligible For
- ANCC Contact Hour(s)
Target Audience and Goal Statement
This activity is intended for cardiologists, primary care physicians, diabetologists, endocrinologists, nurses, and pharmacists.
The goal of this activity is to improve use and selection of statin therapy.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will:
- Have increased knowledge regarding the
- Key pharmacologic differences in statins
- Associated drug-drug interactions with statin therapy
- Have greater competence related to
- Working as a member of the healthcare team to select the most appropriate statin therapy in each individual patient
Disclosures
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Medscape, LLC, encourages Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Faculty
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Harold Edward Bays, MD, FOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC
Medical Director / President
Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center
Louisville, Kentucky
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Joyce L. Ross, CRNP, CLS
Nurse Practitioner
Clinical Associate
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Barbara S. Wiggins, PharmD, FACC
Pharmacy Clinical Specialist-Cardiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Editors
CME, CE Reviewer/Nurse Planner
None of the nonfaculty planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Peer Reviewer
This activity has been peer reviewed and the reviewer has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Accreditation Statements
In support of improving patient care, Medscape, LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
For Physicians
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Medscape, LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.50 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.
For Nurses
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Awarded 0.50 contact hour(s) of nursing continuing professional development for RNs and APNs; 0.25 contact hours are in the area of pharmacology.
For Pharmacists
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Medscape designates this continuing education activity for 0.50 contact hour(s) (0.050 CEUs) (Universal Activity Number: JA0007105-0000-21-362-H01-P).
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Let’s Make a Deal: Breaking Down the Statins for Improved Therapy Selection
CME / ABIM MOC / CE Released: 6/14/2021
Valid for credit through: 6/14/2022