Instructor
Elizabeth Maloney, MD
Education Co-Director, VectorWise CME
Description
Diagnostic tests can be described on the basis of several distinct characteristics, including sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. This module reviews the basic laboratory medicine principles of diagnostic testing.
Learning objectives
- Understand the role of diagnostic testing in the diagnostic process
- Understand the general characteristics of diagnostic tests and their impact on test selection
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Understand sequential testing
Accreditation Statement
This session, Basic principles of diagnostic testing, is approved for 0.5 enduring AAFP Prescribed credits.
The AAFP has reviewed One Health Medical Education for a Changing Climate, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 01/01/2025 to 12/31/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
About the Instructor
Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD
Education Co-Director, VectorWise CME; Partnership for Tick-borne Diseases Education
Dr. Maloney is a Minnesota family physician whose current focus is on tick-borne diseases education and policy. She began providing comprehensive, evidence-based, continuing medical education courses for physicians in 2007 and subsequently founded Partnership for Tick-borne Diseases Education, a non-profit providing evidence-based continuing medical education programming and materials on tick borne diseases. She has authored several peer-reviewed papers and treatment guidelines on Lyme disease and is currently a member of the federally mandated Tick-Borne Diseases Working Group (TBDWG). She is currently the Education Co-director at VectorWise CME.