Memphis, TN 10/10/2011 - Challenger Corporation, the nation’s foremost clinical training and testing company, announced today the introduction of CREOG Academic Curriculum (CAC), for current and future customers of its national Challenger ® Program for Residencies (CPR™) training and assessment platform. CREOG, the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology, establishes core curriculum requirements for residency training. Challenger drew from its vast integrated database of content to provide assessment materials, images, and case studies to prepare the new program.

The CREOG Academic Curriculum (CAC) was prepared with the guidance and advice of David Forstein, DO, Program Director of the Greenville Hospital, SC, Residency in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Forstein is also the incoming President of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOOG). Greenville is a long term client of the Challenger® Program for Residencies, and it is one of 32 training programs in this specialty to use (CPR™) for training and assessment. These requirements are updated every four years, and full-service Challenger clients will automatically be eligible to receive and use the new program.

According to Challenger CEO, Dr. Bob Sweeney, "We are now focusing on enriching our academic platform with curricula based directly on the core requirements for each of the specialty fields we serve. The CREOG Academic Curriculum (CAC) is based on rigorous principles of learning and retention theory, as well as specific cognate knowledge required by the specialty. CAC offers a means for rapidly identifying areas for remediation and thereby a means for increasing in-service training scores and initial boards pass rates. We've been collaborating with ACOOG clinical leaders for the last three years to produce a core curriculum and assessment tool of this caliber. One advantage of the Challenger authoring and assessment system is that we can actually bring these kinds of projects to fruition and get them in the educational environment in comparatively short order. We've already seen in-service score gains and expect dramatic further improvements by the end of 2012. Demand for CAC is very high."

Challenger delivers testing and training materials with an integrated proprietary management reporting system to more than 200 residencies and physician assistant training programs nationwide, and in four other countries—India, Australia, Malaysia, and Canada. The company owns the world’s largest collection of approved electronic CME media, comprising over 5,000 peer-reviewed hours of credit. Thousands of American physicians and other clinicians rely upon Challenger materials to prepare for specialty board exams, recertification, maintenance of certification, and lifelong learning. Challenger serves the educational and training needs of over 400,000 practicing American primary care and hospital-based physicians and nearly 70,000 physician assistants. Challenger products are approved for physician CME credit through joint sponsorships with the University of Colorado School of Medicine and three specialty societies.

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