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Test your surgical knowledge with JAMA Network Clinical Challenges

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Timothy M. Smith

Contributing News Writer

Surgeons have a new, stress-free way to earn CME credits online.

JN Learning™, the CME arm of the JAMA Network™, enables users to browse the JAMA Network catalogue of over 5,000 online resources by any medical topic. A filter then lets users locate more than 1,700 relevant online CME opportunities.

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CME from the JAMA Network also enables you to earn AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credit™ from a source you trust. The AMA has added lessons for many of the most common specialty health topics.

The surgery category helps learners correctly diagnose and treat unusual complications following gastrointestinal surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, bariatric surgery and more. Its 10-lesson online series covers the following topics:

  1. “A Young Woman With Viral Myocarditis.”

    1. A woman in her mid-20s presented with cardiogenic shock. On presentation, she was afebrile with cool extremities; her blood pressure was 75/51 mm Hg, heart rate was 147 beats per minute, respiratory rate was 20 breaths per minute, and oxygen saturation was 99% on mechanical ventilation. What is your diagnosis?

  2. “A Mass in the Infratemporal Fossa.”

    1. A 51-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of headache, right-side jaw pain, paresthesia and trismus. What would you do next?

  3. “Fever, Hypotension and a Worsening Necrotic Wound.”

    1. On the day of giving birth via a normal vaginal delivery, a healthy woman in her 20s developed painful swelling on her right thigh, at the site of a methergine injection administered one day prior. What is your diagnosis?

  4. “Axillary Lymphadenopathy After COVID-19 Vaccination in a Woman With Breast Cancer.”

    1. A 39-year-old healthy woman without family history of malignancy found a mass in her right breast at 38 weeks of pregnancy. What is your diagnosis?

  5. “Neck Mass in an Adolescent.”

    1. A 13-year-old male presented to the pediatric otolaryngology clinic with a two-year history of a right neck mass that had slowly increased in size. What would you do next?

  6. “Metamorphopsia in a Middle-Aged Man.”

    1. A 47-year-old man presented with gradual onset of blurry vision in both eyes for several months. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 OD and 20/40 OS. What is your diagnosis?

  7. “A Man With a Cloudy Cornea.”

    1. A 77-year-old man was referred to the cornea service for painless, progressive blurring of vision in his left eye. What is your diagnosis?

  8. “Postoperative Skin Lesion After Knee Replacement.”

    1. A 71-year-old woman with a history of intermittent generalized pruritus of unclear etiology and right knee osteoarthritis underwent total knee arthroplasty. What would you do next?

  9. “An Unusual Retropharyngeal Lesion.”

    1. A female smoker in her 50s was referred for hyperparathyroidism and a multinodular goiter. What is your diagnosis?

  10. “A Mobile Intracardiac Mass in a Middle-Aged Woman.”

    1. A woman in her mid-40s presented for evaluation of chronic abdominal distension and dyspepsia. What is your diagnosis?

The AMA Ed Hub™ is an online platform that brings together all the high-quality CME, maintenance of certification and educational content you need—in one place—with activities relevant to you, automated credit tracking and reporting for some states and specialty boards. 

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