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Exploring the latest developments in continuing professional education and LMS technologies.

Providing Podcast CME is Easier Than Ever

If you offer podcast CME or are considering offering it, you’ve got a lot to consider. For starters, there’s the question of hosting the files. Where will they live? And how will learners access them? Another issue is how to merge the audio files with actual CME activities so that you can truly offer the…

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Here’s How to Increase Virtual CME Participation

For CME or CE providers who used to host live meetings, how engaging are virtual activities by comparison? It’s a question many are asking a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced providers to virtualize their CME/CE offerings. In a CE Outcomes survey from last year, the data on virtual meeting participation wasn’t very encouraging: “[...]…

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After COVID-19, CME Learners Will Still Want These Things

The coronavirus pandemic has completely upended the online learning paradigm. Before 2020, online CME was still the proverbial new kid on the block. More providers were starting to deliver enduring and webinar activities, but in-person meetings and conferences remained a major force in the CME world. Today, all of that has changed. If your learners…

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COVID-19 Sabotaged Your CME Live Meeting. What Now?

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted nearly everyone on earth and CME providers are no exception. What can you do if you have a CME live meeting planned for 2020? If it isn’t possible (or advisable) to host the event, how can you accommodate learners who hoped to earn credit from their attendance? More importantly, how…

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These Tools Simplify CE Joint Accreditation

Nearly all medical professionals participate in some kind of continuing education (CE). Doctors need CME; nurses need CNE; pharmacists need CPE, and so on. For jointly accredited organizations that provide multiple types of CE – continuing medical education and continuing pharmacy education, for example– it can be tedious to collect data and send reports to…

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A New and Valuable Way to Use Rievent Connect

In the world of continuing education (CE) software, flexibility counts for a lot. When we launched Rievent Connect back in 2016, that’s exactly what we were trying to deliver: a flexible option for online activities that streamlined everything for CE learners and providers. Three years on, Rievent Connect is doing what we designed it to…

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Automate These 5 CME Administrative Tasks

How valuable are your working hours? If you’re like most CME administrators, it depends on how you spend them. For instance, an hour spent creating new CME activities is far more valuable than an hour spent wrangling data scattered among several spreadsheets. And the less time you spend on tedious administration, the more time you’ll…

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Here’s What 2019 Holds for Continuing Education Software

We’re now nineteen years into the 21st century, and a lot of exciting things are happening in the world of continuing education (CE) technology. Over the last several months, we’ve explored several of those developments, including: Increasing participation in continuing medical education (CME) activities among different types of clinicians How technology can help meet the…

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CME Participation is Increasing Faster Than You Think

Whether you’re looking at the number of activities, hours of instruction, physician interactions, or some other metric, there’s no denying it. Participation in continuing medical education (CME) activities is on the rise. According to a new report by the ACCME, more CME activities are being completed by an increasingly diverse body of participants. The report…

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