The CE Alliance provides the following core CME/CE/CPE services:

    • Conducting and documenting needs assessments for grant proposals
    • Providing grant administration
    • Identifying and recruiting expert planning committees and faculty
    • Training faculty
    • Developing and implementing curricula
    • Designing innovative program formats (including case-based activities)
    • Managing projects and meetings
    • Conducting short- and long-term program evaluations
    • Adherence to CME/CE/CPE principles, policies, and procedures, as well as observance of OIG and PhRMA guidelines in the development and execution of all programs
    • Providing Web-based applications and documentation for program participants

The CE Alliance offers continuing education programs in a wide variety of therapeutic areas, including:

    • Allergy/immunology
    • Cardiovascular disease
    • Diabetes/endocrinology
    • Infectious disease
    • Neurology
    • Oncology/hematology
    • Pain and fatigue management
    • Palliative care
    • Pulmonary/respiratory disease
    • Urology
    • Women's health

Content Development

Our content development capabilities are distinguished by access to renowned thought leaders and practicing clinicians in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, who provide expert guidance and clinical review.

In addition, members of our editorial staff have a wealth of expertise and proven experience in medical writing and editing and in continuing education.

The CE Alliance specializes in providing the following types of programs:

  •  Live activities:
    • Grand rounds—regularly scheduled 1-hour meetings hosted by hospitals or academic centers. The CE Alliance works with the host to provide a trained faculty member to deliver a presentation on a predetermined topic.
    • Regional symposia—typically 2 to 4 hours in length with 2 to 4 national thought leaders as faculty. Regional meetings target an audience of 25 to 100 participants and provide a meal and break in addition to the CE activity.
    • Local symposia—typically 1 hour in length with 1 local or regional faculty member. Local symposia target an audience of 10 to 25 participants and provide a meal in addition to the CE activity.
    • Satellite symposia—live educational activities usually associated with, though generally not officially sanctioned by, a national specialty association.
    • Teleconferences—Live teleconferences are provided to a national audience. A general schedule is developed, and participants have a choice of multiple dates and times at which to join the teleconference. Participants receive their meeting materials either via the mail or via download from a Web site. Usually, they hear a national thought leader speak for approximately 45 minutes, and then the line is open for a live Q&A session.
    • Web conferences—This type of activity brings thought leaders and presentations to a national audience in an interactive format. A general schedule is developed and participants have a choice of multiple dates and times at which to join the web conference. Participants receive an e-mailed link to join the Web conference. The link activates a Web page from which participants can view the presentation. They then dial a toll-free number to listen to the faculty. Generally, participants hear a national thought leader speak for approximately 45 minutes, and then the line is open for a live Q&A session.
  • Enduring materials: These publications are often based on the proceedings of live activities, providing such content to a broader audience in ways that can be tailored to target audiences’ learning preferences. Examples of enduring materials for independent learning include:
    • Monographs—typically 18 to 24 pages about 1 therapeutic topic, with content and/or editorial reviews provided by national thought leaders.
    • Journal supplements—similar to monographs but packaged and distributed with a major medical journal. Supplements usually undergo the journal’s peer-review process.
    • CD-ROMs—Presentations are synchronized with audio and/or video to provide a dynamic educational experience.
    • Web-based activities—online access to educational programs without the need for print or CD-ROM media.
    • Archived teleconferences/Web conferences—similar to live teleconferences/Web conferences except that participants can dial into the teleconference/Web conference 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the entire period that the teleconference/Web conference is available, often for 1 to 6 months. A live Q&A is not available in this method.
    • Slide kits—PowerPoint presentations with speaker notes and references available for self learning as a CE activity. Slide kits can be used in participants’ own future presentations.
    • Highlights reports—news from major healthcare meetings, with a practical, clinical orientation.
    • Publication series—a set of newsletters on a particular theme, each serving as its own self-learning activity.

       
  

 

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