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Lone Star Community Health Center Selects Challenger Program For ResidenciesTM
Memphis, Tennessee 08/16/05 - Challenger Corporation announced today that it has been selected by the Lone Star Community Health Center, Inc., in Conroe, Texas, to provide training content and management information reporting for the family medicine residency at the hospital. The Family Medicine Residency at Lone Star is a 21-resident program at a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides health care to over 10,000 Montgomery County residents, including families and individuals without health insurance or ability to pay. The hospital logs over 500 patient visits per week.
With this selection, Challenger is now the provider of online resident educational training and performance evaluation systems for seventeen family medicine residency programs and sixteen other programs in emergency medicine and the training of physician assistants.
Challenger owns the world's largest collection of approved electronic CME media, comprising over 2,800 approved hours of credit. Thousands of 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. Challenger products are approved for physician CME credit through joint sponsorships with prominent medical schools and specialty societies.
According to Challenger's senior manager for business development, Becca A. Metzger, who negotiated the agreement, "Lone Star Community Health Center is a valuable asset to Montgomery County, and the family medicine residency has a statewide reputation for high quality and superb training. We are honored to be chosen by such an important community institution to assist in providing training and evaluation for the next generation of practicing family physicians. Challenger is working hand-in-hand with the leaders of acute and primary care education to meet the requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for focused, measurable, and productive outcomes in the training of young physicians."
Media Contact:
Becca A. Metzger
Senior Manager for Business Development
Challenger Corporation
5050 Poplar Avenue, Ste. 430
Memphis, Tennessee 38157
Tel: (901) 762-8431
E-mail: becca.metzger@chall.com
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