Properly designed online Continuing Medical Education (CME) can produce changes in physician behavior and learning that are better and more meaningfully impacting to individual practice than traditional methods¹. The websites collaboratively designed and built by NetHealth and our partners make a measurable impact on the education of physicians, while and satisfyingy the demanding criteria of prominent medical schools and organizations.

NetHealth will work with you to design engaging, evidence-based online CME programs that produce changes to medical practice and sustained gains in 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 and can integrate with other systems
• Video clips of patient encounters or recorded educational activities
• Audio voiceovers with presentations and random quizzes to engage the learner
• Interactive questions to help guide the learner to appropriate informational material
• Feedback with assessments against peers, national benchmarks, or other data
• Extensive reports for administrators to capture learner activity and assess outcomes
• Easy-to-navigate online tools
• CME evaluation and online certificates

Here's how one of our programs typically works:

Before beginning any educational activity, participants fill out an online survey and preintervention assessment form.

Over a period of two or three weeks, participants complete an online CME program that incorporates educational elements such as didactic presentations, interactive cases, and email exchanges with faculty members.

While sections may be presented in a fixed sequence similar to a traditional 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 may 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.

A key factor in all NetHealth CME programs are engaging online cases, 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 guidev
• Feedback on case management, and
• Opportunities to forward questions or comments to faculty at any time.

After the learning activity, participants complete 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 all the participants. This option provides an opportunity to further reinforce the learning experience and has been popular with participants.

NetHealth's advanced experience with interactive online CME ensures that your program will meet your highest 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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(1) Comparison of the Instructional Efficacy of Internet-Based CME with Live Interactive CME Workshops. Journal of the American Medical Association, September 7, 2005, Vol. 294, No. 9.