Nurses Week 2020 Special Offers on NP & RN Exam Review and CNE CoursesCelebrate National Nurses Week 2020 with Med-Challenger and save 30% on all nursing courses – even NP PRO! National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. As of 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day, … Read More
Tips for a Successful Early Clinical Career for Residents, Fellows, and New Board-Certified Clinicians
Tips for a Successful Early Clinical Career for Residents, Fellows, and New Board-Certified CliniciansHow to get off to a good start in your clinical practice. Completion of residency or fellowship training is an important step in one’s early clinical career. Equally important is getting off to a good start in your chosen branch of medicine once you have completed training. … Read More
What’s the Easiest FNP Exam to Pass? The AANP Exam or the ANCC Exam?
There are two exams that an aspiring Family Nurse Practitioner seeking certification can take – the American Association of Nurse Practitioner’s FNP exam (the AANP exam) or the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (the ANCC exam). Given the amount of time, money, and energy that goes into taking one of these exams, it’s only natural that FNP students would look to … Read More
Rescuing Bedside Medicine
Bedside Medicine is under seige from a glut of new technology and limited patient interaction time. While medical practice has changed remarkably during the lifetime of most of today’s physicians, the fundamental unit of care has not. It is bedside medicine, specifically the clinical transaction – the interaction between doctor and patient that results in the accumulation of the basic … Read More
Why Online Courses Fail
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
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