About PER - Products & Services

At Physicians' Education Resource (PER), our comprehensive programs are designed utilizing advanced adult educational principles in order to ensure that key learning objectives are identified, measured, and achieved.

Live Meetings

In 2008, PER will provide over 300 live meetings comprising an impressive portfolio of programs ranging from international congresses to local community-based meetings, including:

Worldwide Multiday Congresses

Nineteen multiday CME-designated meetings with 40-50 faculty and 8-15 supporters dedicated to educating health care providers on various diseases, treatments and management, and current topics of interest:

By disease types:

Solid tumors: breast; colorectal; lung and head & neck; melanoma; prostate, kidney, bladder; ovarian
Hematologic malignancies: leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloproliferative disorders

By treatments and management:

Targeted therapies and monoclonal antibodies
Long-term management of patients undergoing stem cell transplantation
Supportive care

By topics:

"Oncology Nursing and Pharmacy"
"Clinical Challenges in Cancer Medicine for Community Oncologists (Fall Oncology)"
"Health Care Quality & Improvement Systems"
"Community Oncology Research"

Regional Meetings and Satellite Symposia

Sixty-nine US-based regional 1/2- to 1-day CME-designated meetings with 10-15 faculty and 6-12 supporters

Eight international 1/2- to 1-day meetings

Sole-supported satellite meetings with optional live interactive Webcasts, including over 30 symposia at major congresses and global meetings

Local Meetings

PER offers two distinct types of Local Meetings:

Community Evening Meetings

Two-hour highly interactive CME-designated programs with audience participation facilitated by case-based discussions and question-and-answer sessions
Designed to update medical oncologists and hematologists on recent clinical trial data impacting physician practice

Nationally Broadcast Innovative Learning Programs

CME-designated meetings intended for practicing community oncologists nationally broadcast in high definition simultaneously to audiences in local restaurants throughout the country
Features interactive participation with each site, including live question transmission from all locations

View and register for a live meeting

Self-Directed and Lifelong Learning Programs

In addition to live meetings, PER also publishes hundreds of print and Web-based enduring activities in order to provide health care professionals with self-directed and on-demand learning. Publications include major meeting highlights, monographs, literature overviews, case studies, and supplements.

Print and online publications

CME-designated newsletters:

Early results publications
Clinical scenarios
Mature results publications
Journal clubs

Meeting highlights:

CME-designated summaries written by leading experts in the field

Multimedia publications, including CD-ROMs, from PER meetings

Online Activities

Interactive case studies: CME-designated interactive clinical scenarios

Archived Webcasts and podcasts: Videos from past live events

Tumor Boards and Grand Rounds

Disease-based curricula: Comprehensive and multidimensional programs in breast, colorectal, hematologic (benign and malignant), lung and head & neck, genitourinary, and other solid tumors developed to optimize medical education in the management of specific diseases. Content might include: