Examples of CME Test Questions and Case Studies
CME Test Questions:
CME Test questions are meant to test the knowledge of the attendee or online learner. The questions should
focus on the most important aspects of the presentation rather than on details at the periphery. The questions
should be difficult for someone who did not attend the presentation but easy for anyone who attended. The
questions should follow the format and style below. Please be clear and concise. Questions should have five
options of answers of a through e. One of your questions may also be “True or False”. Please clearly mark the
correct answer and explain why it is correct. See two examples below.
Example 1:
Presentation: Genetics: Shaping Our Understanding of Addiction and Its Treatment
1-1. All of the following statements about drug development are true EXCEPT (choose one):
(a) Promising medications may be taken out of development unnecessarily
(b) The current regulatory environment encourages risk-taking
(c) The current market environment is not conducive to developing “me too” types of medications
(d) There has been a shift in corporate culture at pharmaceutical companies; today, scientists often are
not in critical decision-making positions
(e) None of the above
1-2. Based on a paper published in Science (Paul et al., 2010), the highest cost of drug development is
associated with (choose one):
(a) anesthetics/analgesics
(b) cardiovascular agents
(c) anti-infective agents
(d) neuropsychiatric agents
(e) antiobesity agents
1-3. For a drug to be approved for the treatment of substance use disorder, the FDA may require (choose
one):
(a) A success/failure analysis
(b) An analysis based on group means
(c) A reduction in drug use, although not necessarily abstinence
(d) Inclusion of a compliance measure
(e) None of the above
Example 2:
Presentation: Use and Abuse of Prescription Opioids: Current Evidence
2-1. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which of the following best describes the
magnitude of the number of individuals who have used any prescription opioid illicitly, compared with
those who have used heroin in their lifetime (choose one):
(a) Nonmedical use of prescription opioids is two times greater than heroin use
(b) Nonmedical use of prescription opioids is half the volume of heroin use
(c) Nonmedical use of prescription opioids is 10 times greater than heroin use
(d) Nonmedical use of prescription opioids is one-tenth the volume of heroin use
