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Online Learning / CME
Online Continuing Medical Education (CME)
NetHealth's Online Learning and CME Modules can Produce Behavior Change and Sustained Knowledge Gains
Properly designed online CME can result in meaningful changes in physician behavior that are more impacting to individual practice than traditional methods. The websites and modules collaboratively designed and built by NetHealth and our partners make a measurable difference in the education of health care professionals, while satisfying the demanding criteria of prominent medical schools and organizations.
NetHealth will work with you to design engaging, evidence-based online CME programs that produce sustained gains in practical knowledge, comparable or superior to those realized from live activities.
Our online learning modules are interactive, employing intuitive technologies such as:
- Online registration to capture user profiles integrates with other systems
- Video clips of patient encounters or recorded educational activities
- Audio voiceovers with presentations and random quizzes to engage learners
- Interactive questions to guide users to appropriate informational material
- Feedback with assessments against peers, national benchmarks, and other guideline materials
- Extensive administrative reports to capture learner activity and assess outcomes
- Easy-to-navigate online tools
- CME evaluations and other online certificates
Here's how one of our programs typically works:
Before beginning any educational activity, participants fill out an online survey and pre-intervention assessment form.
Over a period of two or three weeks, participants complete the online CME program, incorporating educational elements such as didactic presentations, interactive cases and email exchanges with faculty members.
Sections may be presented in a fixed sequence similar to a traditional live CME workshop, participants are able to complete sections at their convenience and are free to revisit program sections in their own time and at their own pace. This level of self-directed educational process is believed to reinforce learning and retention and improve outcomes.
To accommodate different learning styles and connection speeds, didactic sections can be offered with streaming video, audio, scrolling text, or synchronized slides; with audio and synchronized slides; or with text and slides alone. Complete CME modules may also be transferred to DVD to be distributed separately with written materials.
A key factor in all NetHealth CME programs is engaging online case-based scenarios, which include a number of common elements such as:
- Clinical data summaries, updated as cases progress
- Interactive clinical problem solving tools, such as an online risk assessment calculator
- A step-by-step management reference guide
- Feedback on case management, and
- Opportunities to forward questions or comments to faculty at any time.
When the learning activity is complete, participants can fill-out a post intervention survey and knowledge assessment. Administrative tools allow monitoring of participant progress, including survey and test completion and choice of resources or references provided to facilitate continuous refinement.
In one month to six weeks following the learning activity, participants can also be given the option of engaging in a live interactive web conference with faculty. The web instructor can show slides, pose multiple-choice questions, and/or poll the audience, sharing responses with participants. This option provides an opportunity to further reinforce the learning experience and has been a popular element.
NetHealth's advanced experience with interactive online CME ensures that your program will meet the highest contemporary standards and educational goals. With a properly structured online CME from NetHealth, your organization can improve health care outcomes, with measurable changes in physician behavior.
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Based on our years of experience working with leading providers we know what it takes to create evidence-based programs that make a difference. Like you, we also know that making a difference in the education of health care providers ultimately means that patients experience a benefit.
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