December 14, 2009: Pharmacy Learning Network™ and RealCME® Announce Collaboration
Pharmacy Learning Network™ Establishes Online Virtual Patient CPE Curriculum through collaboration with RealCME
Innovative pharmacy education curriculum will launch in 2010
Pharmacy Learning Network™, a leading health-systems pharmacist educational platform that provides pharmacists with high-quality, learner-driven Certified Pharmacy Education through live, local conferences announced today a collaboration with RealCME®, a New York-based technology company that develops online educational platforms for the planning, publishing, and analysis of educational activities for health professionals, for its 2010 programs.
Pharmacy Learning Network, with expertise in planning and producing full-day pharmacy learning experiences, will use RealCME's technology platform to build and measure a sequential-learning, virtual patient interaction-based, online and offline curriculum. The integrated curriculum will enable learners to apply knowledge of current clinical guidelines and clinical trial data to the assessment and management of virtual patients over multiple interactions and settings, leading to measurable improvements in the learners' patient care.
Health systems pharmacists participating in Pharmacy Learning Network's six scheduled conferences in 2010 will be introduced to online continuing pharmacy education activities on the Pharmacy Learning Network website focused on the management of virtual patients with a variety of clinical presentations. Presentations within the live event will include discussions of the virtual patients, including faculty opinions and aggregate online learner responses about key decision points. Live event attendees will participate in an interactive virtual pharmacy consult through an audience response system, and then continue their interaction with these virtual patients online, through follow up pharmacy consults.
RealMeasure™, the RealCME outcomes platform, integrates a uniform testing design into the curriculum and provides Pharmacy Learning Network with insight into the impact of current initiatives and on-going educational needs. Analysis includes change in learners' performance, achievement of learning objectives, impact of a particular activity on performance change, and changes in confidence, knowledge, and competency across the curriculum.
Through this collaboration, Pharmacy Learning Network will also offer pharmacists a powerful personal tool to assess and track their performance in real-time as they participate in educational activities. Data from all activities are collected in each learner's secure CMECompanion® account for ongoing self-assessment, analysis, and CE planning. Participants use their CMECompanion to set up and track goals, review subject matter and program scores, schedule follow-up virtual pharmacy consults, and reach out to colleagues to seek their opinions and engage them in collaborative educational activities and discussions.
"Pharmacy Learning Network has demonstrated expertise in reaching and educating pharmacists, centered on live venues," said Steven Haimowitz, M.D., CEO of RealCME. "The collaboration with RealCME meshes the power of these live events with a platform that enables the development of seamless, online-offline sequential curriculum, designed for measurable learner performance improvement. It's an ideal application of the RealCME platform and we're extremely excited to be working with Pharmacy Learning Network."
"NACCME [North American Center for Continuing Medical Education, LLC] launched Pharmacy Learning Network to fill the educational gap among health-systems pharmacists who indicated a need for greater access to live, local CE opportunities," said Randy Robbin, CCMEP, President of NACCME, LLC. "Collaborating with RealCME in 2010 will further refine Pharmacy Learning Network educational value by incorporating a more robust web-based sequential-learning aspect to the initiative. We are confident that combining interactive, practice-based live and web-based programming will enable health-systems pharmacists to find even greater educational value in our CE programming in their efforts to assist in improving patient care."
About NACCME
NACCME, a medical education provider, is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Council on Podiatric Medical Education, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association (an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation), and Commission on Dietetic Registration. NACCME is dedicated to developing audience-focused CME/CE programming that addresses the educational needs of the healthcare professional. The company's experienced and informed clinical and educational development teams provide vital CME/CE programming through a host of media, including conferences, expositions, symposia, websites, podcasts, webcasts, teleconferences, and more
About RealCME
RealCME, a technology company based in New York City, enables medical education providers to seamlessly and cost effectively integrate advanced, web-delivered innovations into their daily activities. RealCME has created a full suite of online applications which allow medical education providers to create unique, collaborative, virtual patient-based CME programs and curricula, supported by an intuitive course authoring system, a powerful learner self-assessment system, and a robust data analysis tool set. For more information, visit www.realcme.com.
Media Contacts:
PHARMACY LEARNING NETWORK
Randy Robbin, President
rrobbin@naccme.com
RealCME
Steven Haimowitz, MD
sh@RealCME.com
