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Challenger Expands Challenger Program for ResidenciesTM to Leading Clinical Institution
Memphis, Tennessee, 06/15/05 - Challenger Corporation announced today that it had been selected by Mayo Clinic to provide training content and management information reporting for the emergency medicine residency program at Mayo. With this selection, Challenger is now the provider of online resident educational training and performance evaluation systems for twelve prominent emergency medicine residency programs, as well as seventeen other programs in family or general medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and two programs engaged in 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, re-certification, 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 nine medical schools and specialty societies.
According to Challenger Senior Manager for Business Development, Becca A. Metzger, who negotiated the agreement, "We are honored to be chosen by Mayo Clinic, our first institutional client in the state of Minnesota, to provide training and evaluation for residents in the course of their training. 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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