ConferenceSeek develops Continuing Medical Education partnership with Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
(PRWEB) May 18, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Amy Ravi, CEO
ConferenceSeek
847.733.8410
847.733.8450
Pr@conferenceseek. com
Www. conferenceseek. com
ConferenceSeek develops Continuing Medical Education partnership with Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
May 8, 2001-ConferenceSeek, a leading online meeting portal for healthcare professionals, today announced its intention to expand its online healthcare meeting library by hosting continuing medical education courses sponsored by Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
"Our alliance with Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center helps us fulfill our commitment to being the complete meeting and continuing education resource for healthcare professionals," said ConferenceSeek CEO Amy Ravi. "We are delighted to bring quality CME courses from RUSH to the thousands of physicians who access our website."
Using ConferenceSeek's web site, healthcare professionals around the country will be able to browse a directory of continuing education courses, then take the courses online and receive continuing education credits immediately.
Continuing medical education is a career long effort that physicians participate in to stay abreast of developments in their field. CME programs target subgroups of the more than 500,000 physicians nationwide. Thirty-six states now require physicians to take 30-50 hours of CME courses annually to maintain licensure. For these reasons, it is important for accredited CME sponsors to make their programs as widely known and available to practicing physicians as possible. "RUSH has a history of developing quality CME activities that share the expertise of renowned faculty with physician colleagues; the use of a service such as ConferenceSeek makes sense to promote RUSH CME courses to physicians around the country, particularly outside of the Chicago area," said Dr. Harold Kessler, Associate Dean and Director of Continuing Medical Education, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
ConferenceSeek's online continuing education courses cost less than 20% of what it would cost a physician to physically attend a CME course. The company's searchable library of meeting and continuing education content provides a consolidated resource for finding and accessing professional information real-time. Using ConferenceSeek's tools, CME providers are better able to track the usage and success of their course offerings. Physicians may participate in CME courses where and when its convenient.
ConferenceSeek's goal is to empower the healthcare community by creating tools to extend the value of healthcare meetings and continuing education courses. The company supports a searchable database of more than 5000 upcoming healthcare conferences.
About ConferenceSeek:
ConferenceSeek is a leading healthcare meeting service, marketing and content management provider. They bring together healthcare professionals, corporations, associations and information to increase the value and extend the life of meetings. ConferenceSeek's complete solution enables healthcare professionals to 1) find a conference using EventFinder™, 2) get to the conference using EventConcierge™, and 3) access meeting and continuing education content via Proceedings Online™.
Founded in 2000, ConferenceSeek is based in Evanston, IL. For additional information about the company, please visit ConferenceSeek on the Web at www. conferenceseek. com.
About Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center:
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center is an academic health center that includes the 809-bed Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital (including the Rush Children's Hospital) and the 154-bed Johnston R. Bowman Health Center for the Elderly.
It is home to the seven Rush Institutes, which draw together patient care and research to address major health problems, offering primary health care services as well as the latest treatments for arthritis and orthopedic problems, cancer, heart disease, mental illness, diseases associated with aging and neurological problems.
Integral to the medical center is Rush University, which includes Rush Medical College, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences, the Graduate College, and a cooperative educational network of 14 liberal arts colleges and universities in six states from Tennessee to Colorado.
####
