The Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine , University of Missouri-Columbia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine , University of Missouri-Columbia designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 hour in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Otolaryngologists, audiologists, other academic physicians of other specialties, as well as, private practice otolaryngologists. This group of attendants are all associated with the care of patients.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: To discuss diagnosis and management principles for otolaryngology patients. Patient discussion to include history, laboratory results, audiologic findings, and basic science principles

The objectives or expectations for the speaker's presentation, and that you asked speakers to observe the following principles required by ACCME & FDA:

• The program taken as a whole must give a balanced view of therapeutic options. Even if one particular approach is advocated, alternatives must be discussed fairly.
• Speakers should clearly indicate when they are stating personal opinion or clinical impressions rather than research-based conclusions. When presenting research-based conclusions, the studies must be discussed or at least referenced in handouts.
• When discussing unlabeled or investigational uses of a drug or medical device, these uses must be clearly identified as such. This holds true for handouts as well as live discussions.
• Generic names for drugs and devices should be used in handouts and discussion. In cases where a brand name is better known than the generic, the speaker may alleviate this problem by a brief explanation of the product's generic name, followed by use of the generic name in the remainder of the presentation or handout.
• Handouts may not include promotional material for any drug or medical device.