Welcome to CenterNet's CME testing site for The Untold Story: Women and Heart Disease .
This continuing educational activity consists of a 1 hour video with a CME post test and evaluation form.
This activity should take about 1.5 hours to complete. To qualify for credit and receive a Certificate of Completion, the participant should:
1. review the objectives
2. watch the video
3. complete the viewer evaluation, post test, and CME application which are all available online at this website.
If you achieve a score of 70% or more, you will be able to print your CME certificate from this online site.
If you don't manage to achieve a passing score, you are welcome to try again.
If you have any difficulty printing out your certificate, please email cme@centernet-tv.com with your problem.
CME credit is available until May 2004 for this program. No credit will be given after that date.
Good Luck!

Objectives for The Untold Story: Women and Heart Disease
• Review key statistics on cardiovascular disease in women
• Describe the alarming trends in the prevalence of modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease
• Describe the four National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes Cardiovascular Health Performance Goals and the disparities in women’s heart health related to each of the goals.
• Describe opportunities for integrating preventive cardiology for women at various stages of the lifecycle into clinical practice.
• Explain ways to integrate the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology preventive cardiology guidelines for women into routine office visits, including screening and counseling related to lifestyle factors and cardiovascular disease risk factors, and use of pharmacological interventions
• Identify the types of patients to refer to a cardiologist
• Discuss the reasons why diagnosis of coronary heart disease is a greater challenge in women than in men
• State the signs and symptoms of acute myocardial infarction in women and the reasons women often delay treatment
• Describe the current standards of medical care for women who are diagnosed with a myocardial infarction

Faculty Disclosures

Name

Grantee/Research

Consultant Speakers Bureau

Advisory Board
Sharonne N. Hayes, MD none none none
Bruce MacLeod, MD none none none
Deborah J. Barbour, MD none 1,2,3 none
1. Bayer
2. Parke Davis
3. Pfizer
 		  

Accreditation Information

The NIH/FAES is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The NIH/FAES designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 hours in category 1 credit for each program (total of 15 hours for entire series) towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent in the educational activity.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the National Institutes of Health/Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (NIH/FAES) and The Association of Academic Health Centers (AHC).  The views presented here are those of the Roundtable panel members and not necessarily those of CenterNet, the producer, the Association of Academic Health Centers, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, or any government agency. Neither the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, nor any other government agency endorse any particular drug or product. Before using or prescribing any product discussed in the video, clinicians should consult the full prescribing information.
 

 
References for Further Study

Greenlund KJ, Giles WH, Keenan NL, Croft JB, Casper ML, Matson-Koffman D. Prevalence of multiple cardiovascular disease risk factors among women in the United States, 1992 and 1995: the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. J Womens Health 1998; 7:1125-33.
Meischke H, Larsen MP, Eisenberg MS. Gender differences in reported symptoms for acute myocardial infarction: impact on prehospital delay time interval [see comments]. Am J Emerg Med 1998; 16:363-6.
Mosca L, Jones WK, King KB, Ouyang P, Redberg RF, Hill MN. Awareness, perception, and knowledge of heart disease risk and prevention among women in the United States. American Heart Association Women's Heart Disease and Stroke Campaign Task Force [see comments]. Arch Fam Med 2000; 9:506-15.
Penque S, Halm M, Smith M, et al. Women and coronary disease: relationship between descriptors of signs and symptoms and diagnostic and treatment course. Am J Crit Care 1998; 7:175-82.
Roberston RM. Women and cardiovascular disease: the risks of misperception and the need for action. Circulation 2001; 103:2318-2320.
Wenger NK, Speroff L, Packard B. Cardiovascular health and disease in women. New England Journal of Medicine 1993; 329:247-256.
 

CME Viewer Evaluation Form
Please complete the Continuing Medical Education online questionnaire.  The evaluation form provides each viewer the opportunity to rate the extent to which the educational objectives were met, the quality of the instructional process, the perception of enhanced professional effectiveness, the perception of commercial bias and his/her views on future education needs. To indicate your answers use the rating scale shown below by entering the number that represents your answer into the box to the right of each question. To move to the next question use your tab button. When you have completed the evaluation, please click on the "Take test" button at the bottom of the page.

1= none or not at all 2= very little 3= average 4= considerably 5= completely

1. Please rate the degree to which this program's objectives were attained:
•  Review key statistics on cardiovascular disease in women  

• Describe the alarming trends in the prevalence of modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease  

• Describe the four National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Cardiovascular Health Performance Goals and the disparities in women’s heart health related to each of the goals  

• Describe opportunities for integrating preventive cardiology for women at various stages of the lifecycle into clinical practice  

•  Explain ways to integrate the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology preventive cardiology guidelines for women into routine office visits, including screening and counseling related to lifestyle factors and cardiovascular disease risk factors, and use of pharmacological interventions  

• Identify the types of patients to refer to a cardiologist  

• Discuss the reasons why diagnosis of coronary heart disease is a greater challenge in women than in men

• State the signs and symptoms of acute myocardial infarction in women and the reasons women often delay treatment

• Describe the current standards of medical care for women who are diagnosed with a myocardial infarction

2. The quality of the instructional process was an asset to the program.

3. To what extent did participating in this activity enhance your professional effectiveness?

4. Please rate the quality of the graphics.

5. The instructions provided for the post test were clear and easy to follow.

6.  To what extent did the video: 
• Modify your opinion in this field?
• Modify your practice in this field?
• Reinforce your opinions in this field?
• Prepare you for your practice in this field?       

7.  Please rate the level of commercial bias in this educational activity.  

8.  Other topics you would like to see on video:

9.  Comments/suggestions:

Now that you have completed the evaluation, click below to take the test.