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Exploring the latest developments in continuing professional education and LMS technologies.
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…
The One-Size-Fits-All LMS vs. the LMS for CME
If you’re researching learning management systems for continuing medical education (CME) or continuing education (CE), you may have encountered “do everything” learning software. These one-size-fits-all products might look like they can handle most CME/CE tasks. And in some respects, they can. But there’s a whole lot they can’t do, too. Any learning management system (LMS)…
5 Ways to Improve Your CME Website
Learners need your CME website to work. More specifically, they need it to deliver the content they need, include all CME activity tasks, and be easy to navigate. But many CME websites fail to deliver on these basic requirements. Maybe they don’t have integrated CME activities. Or maybe they require the learner to juggle multiple…
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…
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…
For CE Software, Take Privacy and Data Security Seriously
When it comes to choosing continuing education (CE) software, learner privacy and data security matter. For one thing, you want your learners to be confident you’re using their data appropriately. What’s more, you want to know with absolute certainty that you’ll never lose any of your CE data. So, how should a CE software provider…
3 Rules for Choosing CME Software
When a CME provider approaches us for the first time, the conversation usually centers around two specific things: How do I know this CME software will actually solve my problems? Do I want to enter into a long-term relationship with this company? Every provider has questions and concerns, but these are the fundamental issues they…
How to Deliver a Learner-Driven CME Experience
Learners care about how they get their CME. Thanks to the proliferation of online CME activities, there are also more ways for them to obtain CME than ever before – and that’s a good thing. But with all good (and new) things come new challenges. As CME live meeting attendance declines and more professionals turn…
7 Tech Tips for Online Continuing Medical Education
By now, many CME providers offer online activities in some form or another. In addition to live meetings, you might offer webinars. Or maybe enduring materials are a mainstay among your learners who obtain CME online – even as other learners prioritize your events. Whatever your situation, it’s never too late to improve your approach…
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