NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Aug. 15, 2005--MedsiteCME, a division of Medsite, today announced that more than 450,000 physicians and other health professionals have registered in its database. The milestone validates the tremendous interest the country's healthcare professionals have in online medical education, particularly the academically-accredited, case-based approach that MedsiteCME provides.
MedsiteCME is a leader in online continuing medical education, recruitment, and outcomes measurement. Its interactive cases focus on maximizing physician learning through a stimulating platform that presents course material as unfolding case histories designed to challenge physicians through a series of tracked questions. The aggregate response patterns validate the needs assessments and provide outcomes data on changes in physician knowledge and behavior.
"Crossing the 450,000 number is a strong endorsement of our leadership in developing top quality medical education programming proven to reach the intended audience," said Destry Sulkes, MD, Managing Director. "The fact that more than 7 in 10 participants complete our programs and more than 1 in 3 choose to claim American Medical Association's Category 1 credit for their participation reflects the appeal of our case-based programming."
"Since our tracking and analyses provide unique perspectives into the ultimate measure of medical education - patient health outcomes assessment, we are finding top faculty and industry supporters are particularly interested in our approach," said Dr. Sulkes.
William C. Roberts, MD, head of Baylor's A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education and Editor of The American Journal of Cardiology, points out that "Reaching thousands of physicians with our CME program is very important. Wide exposure to these educational activities will increase knowledge and improve patient care. Our partnership with MedsiteCME makes this broad distribution possible."
With the passing of this benchmark, MedsiteCME plans to continue its extraordinary growth with the development of broader educational offerings for clinicians, including disease-state education centers, roundtable facilitation, and conference coverage.
About MedsiteCME
MedsiteCME is a leader in online continuing medical education, recruitment, and outcomes measurement. Its innovative, case-based, educational platform maximizes physician interaction time with academically-accredited, easily searchable, clinically relevant content. Leveraging the organization's more than 450,000 physician database, recruitment targets only those specialties who are identified in needs assessments and leads the industry in responsiveness. Online tracking of knowledge and surveys on behavior demonstrate the ability of the educational programming to improve patients' outcomes.
MedsiteCME's educational programming is accredited in partnership with academic institutions including: Baylor's A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education and Beth Israel Medical Center/St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
MedsiteCME's headquarters is at 370 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. The company's telephone number is (212) 417-9515; email can be directed to [email protected]. MedsiteCME is a division of Medsite, Inc.
