ConferenceSeek Develops Continuing Medical Education Partnership With Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.Business Editors EVANSTON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 ConferenceSeek, a leading online meeting portal for healthcare professionals, today announced its intention to expand its online healthcare meeting library by hosting continuing medical education continuing medical education See CME. courses sponsored by Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. "Our alliance with Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center helps us fulfill our commitment to being the complete meeting and continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). resource for healthcare professionals," said ConferenceSeek CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Amy Ravi. "We are delighted to bring quality CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). courses from RUSH to the thousands of physicians who access our website." Using ConferenceSeek's web site, healthcare professionals around the country will be able to browse a directory of continuing education courses, then take the courses online and receive continuing education credits immediately. Continuing medical education is a career long effort that physicians participate in to stay abreast of developments in their field. CME programs target subgroups of the more than 500,000 physicians nationwide. Thirty-six states now require physicians to take 30-50 hours of CME courses annually to maintain licensure licensure (lī´s  nsh . For these reasons, it is important for accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. CME sponsors to make their programs as widely known and available to practicing physicians as possible. "RUSH has a history of developing quality CME programs that share the expertise of renowned faculty with physician colleagues; the use of a service such as ConferenceSeek makes sense to promote RUSH CME courses to physicians around the country, particularly outside of the Chicago area," said Dr. Harold Kessler, Associate Dean and Director of Continuing Medical Education, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. ConferenceSeek's online continuing education courses cost less than 20% of what it would cost a physician to physically attend a CME course. The company's searchable library of meeting and continuing education content provides a consolidated resource for finding and accessing professional information real-time. Using ConferenceSeek's tools, CME providers are better able to track the usage and success of their course offerings. Physicians may participate in CME courses where and when its convenient. ConferenceSeek's goal is to empower the healthcare community by creating tools to extend the value of healthcare meetings and continuing education courses. The company supports a searchable database Refers to databases on the Web that are searchable by typing in a query. The term is quite redundant because all databases are searchable. In fact, that is one of their major features. of more than 5000 upcoming healthcare conferences. About ConferenceSeek: ConferenceSeek is a leading healthcare meeting service, marketing and content management provider. They bring together healthcare professionals, corporations, associations and information to increase the value and extend the life of meetings. ConferenceSeek's complete solution enables healthcare professionals to 1) find a conference using EventFinder(TM), 2) get to the conference using EventConcierge(TM), and 3) access meeting and continuing education content via Proceedings Online(TM). Founded in 2000, ConferenceSeek is based in Evanston, IL. For additional information about the company, please visit ConferenceSeek on the Web at www.conferenceseek.com. About Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center is an academic health center that includes the 809-bed Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital (including the Rush Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. ) and the 154-bed Johnston R. Bowman Health Center for the Elderly. It is home to the seven Rush Institutes, which draw together patient care and research to address major health problems, offering primary health care services as well as the latest treatments for arthritis and orthopedic orthopedic /or·tho·pe·dic/ (-pe´dik) pertaining to the correction of deformities of the musculoskeletal system; pertaining to orthopedics. problems, cancer, heart disease, mental illness, diseases associated with aging and neurological neurological, neurologic pertaining to or emanating from the nervous system or from neurology. neurological assessment evaluation of the health status of a patient with a nervous system disorder or dysfunction. problems. Integral to the medical center is Rush University, which includes Rush Medical College, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences, the Graduate College, and a cooperative educational network of 14 liberal arts colleges It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. Liberal arts colleges and universities in six states from Tennessee to Colorado. www.conferenceseek.com |
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