Instructions

Date & Location
Thursday, June 20, 2024, 4:00 PM - Thursday, December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM

Target Audience
Specialties - Physicians
Professions - Physician

Overview

Did ancient civilizations discover antibiotics?

We can all agree that modern medicine is “advanced,” however a vague term that may be. We can, with relative ease, image the deepest parts of the body, identify and treat innumerable pathogens, and use machines to keep people alive even when their kidneys, hearts, and lungs are failing. It’s hard to imagine practicing medicine (let alone being a patient) centuries ago when now routine things like albuterol for asthma or an EKG for chest pain were not yet around. Here’s a humbling thought: In a few hundred years, won’t people talk about how primitive and ignorant medicine used to be in 2024? It makes you wonder whether we should so quickly discount the medical capabilities of our ancestors. In this episode of The Curious Clinicians, we investigate whether ancient civilizations actually knew about something we regard as a triumph of modern medicine: antibiotics.


Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

  1. Discuss the effects that antibiotics may have been known in some fashion by an ancient North African civilization called the Nubians.
  2. Examine the natural tetracycline that was produced by streptomyces bacteria.

Registration

There is a $10.00 Credit Claim fee to obtain CE credit for this activity. This Credit Claim fee will help to cover the costs of operational services, electronic reporting (if applicable), and real time customer service support. 

  • Please select the "Register," tab to register for the activity and access content.
  • In order to receive continuing education credit, learners must listen to the 30 minute podcast, pass the post-test (3 questions, 66% required score, unlimited attempts), and complete an evaluation form. 

The planning committee members report having no relevant financial relationships to disclose:

Hannah Abrams 
Tony Breu
Avi Cooper

No commercial or in-kind support was provided for this activity.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Curious Clinicians and VCU Health Continuing Education. VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

VCU Health Continuing Education designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

It is the responsibility of the participant to provide the correct information [ABIM ID Number and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive MOC credit for participating in a CE activity. 

Disclaimers 
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

 

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.50 hours)