Online courses fail due to a number of factors. Online medical education programs are growing rapidly and when online courses fail to produce successful outcomes, it can threaten a program’s reputation and viability. So why do online courses fail? In this article, we’ll look at why online courses fail, the factors in play, and insights into creating online courses that … Read More
Content Curation and How It Impacts Medical e-Learning Programs
The language of online learning is not very precise. People can’t even agree on what to call it. Is it “e-learning,” “elearning,” or “eLearning”? There are some 70,000 companies involved in areas of online learning, and, today, they seem to be leaning towards “e-learning.” That imprecision in language extends to other areas of online learning – such as content curation. … Read More
Med-Challenger Releases Online Course and Question Editing Platform
On September 19, 2019, Med-Challenger announced the release of new authoring tools allowing schools and training organizations to create courses and tests for its medical education platform. Med-Challenger has introduced new custom authoring tools that allow customers to create their own stand-alone courses, as well as mix and merge the customer’s content with Challenger’s own courses. The new authoring tools … Read More
Nurse Practitioner Practice: New Trends of the NP Practice and NP Programs
Nurse practitioner practice is one of the fastest growing segments in healthcare practice and healthcare education. From BSN to NP to DNP, the number of graduated nurse practitioners is still outpaced by demand and NP programs are adopting new solutions to meeting demand – or they must turn away qualified candidates every year. In this article, we’ll look at the … Read More
Cognitive Computing Applications for Medical Education Programs
The term cognitive computing is typically used to describe artificial intelligence (AI) systems that aim to simulate human thought. Human cognition involves real-time analysis of environment, context and intent, among many other variables that inform a person’s ability to solve problems. Cognitive computing differs slightly in application and purpose from that of AI. Where AI’s purpose is to provide an … Read More
The Biggest Challenge for Healthcare Education Programs and Their Leadership
Whether you are directing an institutional training program or seeking to ensure the best possible care throughout an organization, there are many components to successful healthcare education, systemic continuing education, and real-time quality assurance. These components – onboarding incoming students or employees, maintaining quality curricula resources, testing practitioner knowledge quality, remediating struggling students or staff, and supporting continuing certification and … Read More
How to Create Your Own Medical Education Questions and Tests Online
Med-Challenger has introduced new question authoring tools to its online medical education platform. Group program managers and educators can now create, edit, organize, and deploy your own custom questions – all within Med-Challenger. That’s right! With Med-Challenger’s on-demand, exam-based question banks – and the ability to add your own questions – there’s no faster, easier, or more flexible way to create … Read More
How to Create Online Assignments: Program Director Suite
Med-Challenger’s online group education Program Director Suite allows education program directors to issue online assignments to distance learners and brings back all performance data into a single view. Program directors can track student assignment compliance and performance, compare results, and ultimately get every student to the finish line, well-trained, well-tested, prepared for certification exams, and on track for timely graduation. … Read More
Top 6 Issues Facing Medical Residency Programs Today
Medical residency programs and residency directors are facing a variety of residency training issues today. In fact, these issues have become increasingly intrusive and frustrating at all medical training programs for some time. Here are the top 6 issues – and actionable solutions to consider in 2019, 2020 and beyond. How do you close the gap and provide relevant clinical … Read More
Core EPAs Milestone Management for Medical Schools
Med-Challenger, the leading provider of group medical education services to medical training progams, first introduced online training “milestone” management to its online medical education & assessment platform in 2018. Now Med-Challenger has added the ability for medical schools to quickly and easily evaluate, log, and document training milestone achievement for students in all Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency (i.e. … Read More