Continuing Medical Education

CME Questions

This section provides a review. Mark each statement according to the factual material contained in this issue and the opinions of the authors. A score of 70% is required to qualify for CME credit.

Article One (pp. 43–47)

1. The most important person in your academic career is your:

   • Section Chief

   • Chairman

   • Division Chief

   • Mento

2. Viable options to develop a research program include:

   • Developing an independent research program

   • Collaboration with researchers who share similar interests

   • Aligning with industry

   • All of the above

   Article Two (pp. 48–54)

3. Core skills for academic surgery include:

   • Time management and organization

   • Grant writing and budgeting

   • Negotiation and networking

   • Mentoring and leadership skills

   • All of the above

4. The stage of learning when didactic knowledge is conscientiously translated into competence through practical application is termed

   • Cognitive phase

   • Self-learning phase

   • Associative phase

   • Automatic phase

5. Protected time away from clinical duties for acquiring research skills can be gained through:

   • Career development awards from professional societies

   • K08 grant

   • Institutional funding

   • T32 grant

   • All of the above

   Article Three (pp. 55–57)

6. Factors to consider include when considering an academic position include:

   • Practice setting

   • Type of research

   • Focus of practice

   • All of the Above

7. The most critical factor infl uencing future success as an academic colorectal surgeon is:

   • Starting salary

   • Identifying a career mentor

   • A fancy title

   • Large laboratory space

   Article Four (pp. 58–64)

8. For success in basic science as a career, surgeons must have mentorship by other surgeons. True or false?

9. Almost all surgeons who received a mentored grant (K-series) from the National Institutes of Health will be successful in receiving independent funding (R-series). True or false?

   Article Five (pp. 65–70)

10. Federally funded trials adequately cover the expenses of conducting a RCT True or False?

11. Joining a Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP):

    • provides access to several phase I, II and III trials

    • gives signifi cant autonomy

    • allows management on own budget

    • provides funding before patient enrolment

    • All of the Above

    Article Six (pp. 71–74)

12. Physicians have increased risk of depression when compared to the general population. True or False ?

13. Surgeons have decreased rates of divorce when compared to internal medicine colleagues. True or False ?

    Article Seven (pp. 75–80)

14. Key components of the academic mindset includes:

    • Research

    • Teaching

    • Publication

    • All of the above

15. Institutional culture refers to:

    • Quality outcomes criteria

    • Characteristics of a National demographic

    • Daily expectations of performance and accepted activity within a group