Introduction to Neurology's Online CME

• Take the quizzes online
• Receive instant feedback on selected answers
• Submit completed issue quizzes for CME credit and receive confirmation of credit immediately via email
• Review all credits earned via Neurology Online CME via an individualized Current CME Report

The overall educational objectives are:

• Participants will read, understand, and reflect upon scientific, clinical, economic, and ethical aspects of contemporary neurology.
• Participants will consider how this newly learned information impacts their clinical practice. Specifically, the participants will explicitly assess how this new knowledge has changed their concepts of disease processes and has modified clinical practice.

Relationship Disclosure:

Neurology Editor-in-Chief:Robert A. Gross, MD, PhD, FAAN has received research funding from the Department of the Army and UCBPharma. He is supported for educational endeavors from the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH. Dr. Gross has conducted clinical trials over the past five years funded by GlaxoSmithKline, UCB, Ortho-McNeil, Pfizer, and Marinus. He has served on the speakers’ bureaus for Abbott, UCB, and GlaxoSmithKline and has received consultant fees from GlaxoSmithKline and Harris Interactive. Since his appointment as Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Gross has ceased participation in industry-sponsored clinical trials and speakers’ bureaus. He receives an honorarium from AAN as Editor-in-Chief of Neurology.

Neurology CME Editors: Steven Lewis, MD, has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American College of Physicians; James W.M. Owens, Jr, MD, PhD reports no disclosures.

PADS Subcommittee: Program Accreditation and Development Subcommittee (PADS) is responsible for reviewing and evaluating all CME programs. PADS members: Pradeep K. Sahota MD, FAAN, has nothing to disclose, Allison Brashear MD, FAAN, has received personal compensation for activities with Allergan, Merz, Ipsen and Osmotica as a consultant, has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for Wemove, has received research support from Allergan, Merz, and Ipsen, J. Clay Goodman MD, FAAN, has nothing to disclose, Steven L. Lewis MD, FAAN, has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for the journal Neurology, Barbara F. Westmoreland MD, FAAN, has nothing to disclose, Susan Rodmyre, has nothing to disclose.

Important Notes:

• Credit is not issued on an article-by-article basis. All quizzes for an entire issue must be completed before subscribers can submit their answers for credit.
• Online CME is only available to subscribers. If you wish to subscribe, please click here.
• Participants will only have access to CME for those years in which they had a subscription to Neurology and Online CME is offered.

The Benefits of the Neurology Online CME System

The benefits of the online system include:

• A Current CME Report, containing the records of the issues submitted for credit, ongoing quizzes, and credits earned
• Immediate email confirmation of credit earned
• The ability to complete one issue at a time, as the year progresses, and submit and receive credit confirmation issue-by-issue

We invite you to provide any feedback on this system, to help us enhance it for our subscribers.

Expiration of Credit: Credit for completing Neurology online CME will be awarded for up to 2 years after publication. Credits will be recorded in the year in which they are submitted, not the year in which the volume was published.

Verifications of Credit: You will receive an e-mail message verifying the CME credit you have earned through Neurology.

CME Credit Deadlines

When you have completed all of the quizzes for a particular issue, you must submit the issue for CME credit via the Internet. If you are not sure whether you have submitted completed issues for CME credit, you may access your Current CME Report by clicking on the "My CME" button on the Neurology home page. If you have submitted an issue for CME credit, your Current CME Report will indicate you received 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits if both CME courses for the issue are completed.

To receive your CME transcript through the American Academy of Neurology, go to aan.com, select "Education", then select "My CME Transcript." Earned Neurology online CME will be available on the AAN transcript one week after completion.

If you have technical questions about your CME quiz, please contact:

Feedback

If you have questions regarding CME credit and deadlines, please contact the AAN Education Office:

Lori Strachota
American Academy of Neurology
1080 Montreal Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55116

Tel: (651) 695-2706
Fax: (651) 361-4806
e-mail: lstrachota@aan.com