Objectives
The Tackling Obesity in Patients eModule reviews the nomenclature of body mass index (BMI), as well as overweight and obesity classifications.
The unit explores:
- How obesity impacts children and affects patients who experience infertility
- Complications in pregnancy
- Disruptions in hormones and human physiology
- Counseling techniques, treatment options, and billing codes
Credits
ACCME Accreditation
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this enduring material for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
College Cognate Credit(s)
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this enduring material for a maximum of 7 Category 1 College Cognate Credits. The College has a reciprocity agreement with the AMA that allows AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to be equivalent to College Cognate Credits.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
The ACOG eModule Tackling Obesity in Patients was developed under the direction of the eModule Advisory Committee and contributor. The ACOG eModule is planned and produced in accordance with the Standards for Enduring Materials of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Any discussion of unapproved use of products is clearly cited in the appropriate critique.
Current guidelines state that continuing medical education (CME) providers must ensure that CME activities are free from the control of any commercial interest. The contributor(s) and the advisory council declare that neither they nor any business associate nor any member of their immediate families has material interest, financial interest, or other relationships with any company manufacturing commercial products relative to the topics included in this publication or with any provider of commercial services discussed in the eModule.