Memphis, TN 6/30/11 - Challenger Corporation, the nation’s foremost clinical training and testing company, announced today the introduction of Challenger Professionalism, a training course aimed directly at the professionalism objective required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The ACGME mandates that clinical residencies demonstrate evidence that residents in training acquire professional competencies that encompass their interactions with patients, other professionals, community sources, and third parties, such as pharmaceutical and device companies. The new Challenger program includes 37 hours of peer-reviewed content on these topics.

According to Challenger CEO, Dr. Bob Sweeney, "Our physician and editorial development group has been focusing on the five other ACGME-required competencies that complement our strong traditional position in medical knowledge and assessment. Challenger Professionalism will provide our full service clients with a tool which permits them to directly assess and verify resident knowledge of this requirement. The clinical training community need to be able to document specific learning gains in all the ACGME competency areas, not just clinical content knowledge. This release illustrates our commitment to helping them do so."

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 3,800 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.

Challenger Corporation
5100 Poplar Avenue Ste. 1410
Memphis, Tennessee 38137
Tel: (901) 762-8449