CME Learning Resource Center

Situation

An accredited medical education company creates and implements 30 - 40 activities and programs a year. The activities range from live venues (Symposia and Grand Rounds) to webcasts and educational journals. After the live presentations, the provider created enduring material for expanded distribution. Unfortunately, these efforts were expensive, awkward, and inconsistent - largely due to the varied format of the initiative and the lack of a uniform, integrated platform. Reporting mandates from the ACCME made the task even more difficult.

Situation

30 - 40 programs per year

Variety of live and online formats Enduring material on web

Web distribution proved costly, awkward, and troublesome

Challenge

Create an enhanced web portal that more easily facilitated the learning process, provides more control for the provider to post a larger variety of content, and create, post, and track the required CME assessment materials.

Challenge

Make program material available on the web

Make compliance with the accreditation effort easy and automatic

Needs

Medical education communications company needed an attractive online presence that was specifically designed to accommodate accredited continuing medical education. This included the ability to load information pertaining to live ongoing programs, online activities, and enduring material from those programs. The system also had to be capable of delivering the enduring material in a way that facilitated the ACCME requirements including a program & faculty information, pre and post testing, and evaluation. All this had to be done on a website that would be intuitive to the learner.

Needs

Attractive, branded

Display and registration for upcoming live events

Hosting of enduring, on-demand. CME material

Flexible system that is easy-to-use

Solution

The Blue Grotto CME Learning Resource Center was customized for the medical education communications company to meet all of their online needs. Now, this provider can offer medical professionals a single online location where they can register for live events, as well as view online activities and enduring materials. The Blue Grotto CME Learning Resource Center also helps the medical professionals track the CME progress, and notify them of new CME activities they may be interested in. Addiotionally, the system handles every aspect of the reporting process; for both sponsors and the ACCME. Results are downloadable directly to the Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) of the ACCME.

Blue Grotto CME Learning Resource Center

CME Portal for live and on-demand events

Registration

CME journal for medical professionals

Offers programs from other websites

Handles reporting

Result

The medical education communication company can now post all of their programs online, quickly, inexpensively, and in a consistent way that promotes their brand, while the learner has a user-friendly, intuitive educational experience.