Wolters Kluwer Health (Conshohoken, PA), parent of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Ovid, Facts & Comparisons and Medi-Span, has separated its continuing medical and pharmacy education unit into a subsidiary company.Wolters Kluwer Health (Conshohoken, PA), parent of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Ovid, Facts & Comparisons and Medi-Span, has separated its continuing medical and pharmacy education unit into a subsidiary company. The new entity, Lippincott Continuing Medical Education continuing medical education See CME. Institute (LCMEI; Yardley, PA) will accredit To give official authorization or status. To recognize as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for professional practice. In International Law: 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). activities for all Wolters Kluwer Health products. In related news, Wolters Kluwer Health has launched Communities@Ovid, a web development service designed to provide medical specialty medical specialty Any specialty that provides non-interventional Pt management, ie with drugs, or with minimum intervention–eg, balloon catheterization Examples Internal medicine–allergy and immunology, cardiology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, societies with "organization-building online tools, content and functionality." The service offers a menu of customizable online features including access to journals, books, databases and news feeds, all of which can be integrated with content generated by societies themselves, such as specialty journals, continuing medical education offerings and conference proceedings. |
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