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University of Florida at Jacksonville Selects Challenger Program for ResidenciesTM
Memphis, TN 03/07/05 - Challenger Corporation announced today that it had been selected by the University of Florida at Jacksonville to provide training content and management information reporting for the emergency medicine residency at the hospital. The Department of Emergency medicine trains 50 residents in the specialty of emergency medicine. With this selection, Challenger is now the provider of online resident educational training and performance evaluation systems for eleven prominent emergency medicine residency programs, as well as fifteen other programs in family or general medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and the training of physician assistants.
According to Mark McIntosh, MD, FACEP, Director of Medical Education at the Jacksonville campus:
We at the University of Florida - Jacksonville are looking forward to incorporating the Challenger Program for ResidenciesTM into our curriculum. The extensive library of visual and written resources provided by Challenger will provide our Emergency Medicine Residents and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows with the hi-tech tools essential for maximizing their educational opportunities. The program will help our residents develop the lifelong learning skills and disciplines needed to succeed in our profession.
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 prominent medical schools and specialty societies.
According to Challenger Senior Manager for Business Development, Becca A. Metzger, who negotiated the agreement, "The University of Florida at Jacksonville is a regional facility whose emergency medicine residency has a national reputation for high quality and superb training. We are honored to be chosen by such a prominent institution, our first institutional client in the state of Florida, to provide training and evaluation for the next generation of practicing emergency 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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