Continuous Medical Development through Continuing Medical Education

Medical research is the basic research, applied research, or researches conducted to aid and support the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. Medical research can be divided into two general categories: the evaluation of new treatments for both safety and efficacy in what are termed clinical trials, and all other research that contributes to the development of new treatments. There is a growing demand for medical education in and among today's generation. The need for innovative medical strategies has not been higher.

Thanks to Continuing Medical Education (CME) this is possible. CME refers to a specific form of continuing education (CE) that helps those in the medical field maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events, written publications, online programs, audio, video, or other electronic media.

Content for these programs is developed, reviewed, and delivered by faculty who are experts in their individual clinical areas. Similar to the process used in academic journals, any potentially conflicting financial relationships for faculty members must be both disclosed and resolved in a meaningful way.

With limited information on actual return on investment for expenditures toward support of activities, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are anxious to understand the value of CME support and strategies for ensuring investments provide appropriate impact on healthcare practitioner behaviors and patient outcomes.

How does the medical research community understand the value of CMEs? Through reports and studies compiled using benchmark metrics and executive insights to assess current trends and future directions of CME in countries to map a path to future success in support of CME.

Certain organizations compile reports that cover important questions such as what is the current landscape of CME in North America and Europe, structural forms that are used to deploy CME, optimize budgets & best deliver content, pace at which is E-CME advancing, preferred CME delivery channels and the current trends and future directions of CME.

The answer to these questions are a result of research based on benchmark survey data and executive interviews of 30 participants from 26 pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical education companies. The reports contains uncovered findings on medical education such as decentralized management structures are most common across the global CME landscape and that the internet delivers on average between 10-25 percent of global CME content.

Make an educated decision on the future of medical education and medical research by looking at these unbiased benchmark reports.

Orthopedics hyperguide application imparts global physicians a Continuous Medical Education

Vindico, as a company is the synonym for quality and successful medical activities in New Jersey. With the advent of technology, Vindico has rightly launched a mobile application to provide the practicing physicians the daily updates in the healthcare industry. The application when launched on your Smartphone gives the user, an unlimited database of knowledge and information. Besides the immense knowledge in the form of online lectures, podcasts and also with an option of engaging tutorials, the application gives the choice of evaluating oneself in the acquired knowledge by taking up tests and getting the score of the performance. It is of high priority that the practicing medical professionals upgrade their knowledge to enhance their services to their patients.

The very purpose of CME is to deliver the healthcare professionals with the most recent advancements in clinical relevancy, verified medical facts and productive way of using the available resources.

All of these updates aim at achieving enhanced patient care and awareness and better medical knowledge for the physicians. This app is designed to achieve these goals in a convenient way.

At the launch of ‘Orthopedic hyperguide’ application, you are prompted for your login details. After supplying the credentials, the user is taken to the home page where you can start off your learning process in a very effective manner. Each post will brief its own learning objectives and keeps you on to explore the advancements happening in the medical field. The faculty detail of that respective chapter is also highlighted for reader’s benefit. To sum-up, the orthopedic hyperguide is designed to best for regular usage. Keeping up with the medical related information even on the move is a tedious factor without this mobile app. Not only is the learning aspect is a wonder, but also taking up a test and to keep track of the score is made possible to assist the physicians to earn a CME certificate. With a lot of tutorials taking place to deliver the medical practitioners the new and evolved medical aspects, these tutorials and lectures are all available on the Smartphone at their finger tips. The developers of this app, though from a through technical back ground have put in their extra hours and efforts in understanding how exactly the Continual Medical Education works and its significance in the medical industry. These aspects are understood in a module wise to create an app that knows all the issues it might encounter while a medical professional operates the app.

The app is capable of processing and supporting a varied multiple data formats such as audio, video and text files. Another noteworthy achievement from the developers is the video streaming feature on the mobile device, which is accomplished using Darwin streaming server and through a network control protocol namely Real Time Streaming Protocol abbreviated as RTSP. Such high end technology resources are used wisely to frame this app to perfection.

Medical education in virtual world demands different types of data files and all these are available on common platforms including Blackberry and iPhone. With the CME certification kept in a high priority, the incomplete and completed quizzes are kept track off to enable the physicians to earn their CME credits. If a user performs satisfactorily in these quizzes, the CME certificate will be emailed to them with no delay.

Continuous Stair Handrails

I have had numerous problems with local building inspectors and building departments over the years about continuous stair handrailing. When I first started in construction the stair handrail was basically a guardrail to keep people from falling off the staircase. Then the building departments in some areas took it upon them selves to use the handrail for something to hold on to as you are walking up and down the stairs. Well now in some cites the building department will require a continuous handrail running the entire length of the stairway. This however is now a national building code but is not always enforced. This becomes confusing to your stair assembling carpenters that are told they need to do it in one city but not the next. This is not a good thing for the construction business in general. While working as a carpenter framing stairs for track homes doing my best to keep up with changes as they came along in the Unified Building Code. I found this really didn't mean a whole heck of a lot , as I went from city to city listening to local building inspectors interpretation of the U.B.C. To this day I can not tell you for sure what one city wants in the way of building a stair handrail system in your home. Now don't get me wrong. If you build your set of stairs as per plans you could be rebuilding them if the building inspector finds something wrong. Just recently I told the owner builder of a home I was framing not to forget and ask the inspector about the continuous stair handrail. Would he need to make it continuous and if so would if have to run past the last stair treads 12 inches at the top and bottom of the stairway. When I came back to build a handrail on the front and back porch I noticed the stair handrail was installed . There was two problems with the stair handrail. The first problem was the 37 inch tall stair guardrail which would have been fine 15 years ago but today in most cities you need a 42 minimum stair guardrail with a continuous gripable handrail. This was the first problem the next of course was that the inspector wanted a continuous gripable handrail. You might ask why didn't the owner builder take my advice and ask the building inspector. Why didn't the carpenter installing the stairs ask the owner or find out about the local building codes. I don't know why but I can tell you this much they had to remove the 37 inch handrail and could not reuse the stair balusters because they where to short. The new stair guardrail had to be 42 inches minimum. The moral to this story is it won't cost the building department any money to rebuild your stair handrail system. So ask the building inspector and if possible have the inspector sign the plans stating the facts involved (no continuous stair handrail) . Get it in writing from the building department as a good rule of thumb then you will have something to argue with the local building department when the situation arises.