ACOEM offers CME for reading selected articles in our peer-reviewed Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM). One (1) credit can be earned per article.

To earn credits, you must have an active individual subscription to JOEM for the issue in which the ACOEM Online CME course is offered. The CME activity itself must not be expired.

To access the online exam, after reading the article referenced in the title of this product and purchasing the CME product, log in to ACOEM Connect. Go to My ACOEM, then Education, and then Access Online Education to complete the online exam and evaluation.

Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:

• Outline how the relationship between arsenic exposure and all-cause mortality and the joint effect of arsenic exposure and smoking has not been described well in previous studies.
• Explore the different statistical methods used to explore the relationship between arsenic exposure and smoking and the risk of all-cause mortality and a variety of cause of death.
• Assess the negative effects of smoking and arsenic exposure on all-cause mortality.

This activity is designed for physicians and other healthcare professionals who specialize in or have an interest in Occupational and Environmental Medicine topics.