Med-Challenger is excited to announce updates of our Stroke Presentation, Workup, and Treatment materials to incorporate the most recent recommendations from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) recommendations.

Shortly after the 2018 publication of the AHA/ASA Comprehensive Stroke Guidelines, several stroke studies were completed, which led them to retract the 2018 recommendations and republish them as the significantly changed stroke guidelines. Med-Challenger’s Stroke Presentation, Workup, and Treatment materials reflect these fundamental practice changes. 

Clinicians interested in urgent care education, emergency care education, and stroke center training will find this to be an invaluable resource. For those seeking to meet comprehensive stroke center CME requirements or primary stroke center CME requirements or to earn stroke center CME or other State Required CME, this material offers 3 hours’ worth of CME credit – AMA PRA Category 1 credit, ANCC contact hours, and ACEP Category I credit.

The review Q&A in this content are followed by longer than usual explanations, which assures that learners can quickly review and absorb the new stroke guidelines directly from Med-Challenger. Links to the full AHA/ASA guidelines are also included for further reading.

“This is a perfect example of why Med-Challenger’s proprietary learning methodology is so important - in a stroke situation, urgent care and emergency medicine clinicians need to have learned and retained the essential treatment information,” remarked Med-Challenger CEO, Robert Anderson. 

Med-Challenger’s Stroke Presentation, Workup, and Treatment materials are now available in all Med-Challenger exam review and CME courses for physicians, nurses, and physician assistants.  Also included in all Med-Challenger PRO bundles.

Part of Med-Challenger's process is a continual review of changing guidelines and reported errata across all its specialized medical education courseware.  These routine updates allow us to fine-tune our materials to the most current standards and utility.  We also address all user feedback errata reports and attend to peer-reviewed corrective measures.  We are committed to our customer's long-term education investment and patronage. 

This new online risk management CME video-based course for practitioners helps providers understand the malpractice process and learn how to protect yourself against lawsuits.  12 engaging video lessons are delivered by Victor Waters, MD, JD, FCLM.  AMA Category 1 and ANCC contact hour credits can be earned through the course as well.  

Platform Enhancements

In addition to content updates, our engineers are refining our platform utilities on a constant basis.  Moore's law doesn't seem to be going anywhere and it's a curse and a blessing.  The best technologies always grow outdated, but new advances in processing power allow us to updates code and features allow our users to work faster and more efficiently.

Other enhancements include:

• Updated CME Quick Quiz interface to display more information about leaderboards and user rankings.
• New custom content sharing abilities for institutions and group education distance learning programs including the ability to share custom exams across sister organizations.
• A host of user interface improvements for mobile devices and authoring tools.