Objectives

Prepregnancy Carrier Screening reviews the history, purpose, and timing of carrier screening. Current guidelines and recommendations by ACOG and other organizations are explained, and the unit discusses the difference between ethnicity-based versus expanded carrier screening.

By the end of this unit, participants should be able to:

• Explain the history of ethnicity-based carrier screening
• List current recommendations for prepregnancy screening
• Evaluate the option of expanded carrier screening

Physicians can purchase the eModule, access it at the link below, and receive CME credit once they achieve 80% or higher on the posttest.

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 Prepregnancy Carrier Screening 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.

Credit for each ACOG eModule will be available for 3 years from the initial date of release or revision.