Long Beach Memorial Medical Center is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality and the California Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Long Beach Memorial Medical Center takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.0 hours of Category 1 credit toward the California Medical Association’s Certification in Continuing Medical Education and the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

The California Board of Registered Nursing recognizes category 1 courses approved for credit by the American Medical Association toward meeting the continuing education requirements for license renewal.