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.
In addition to live meetings, PER publishes hundreds of print and Web-based educational 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. Moreover, a variety of online-exclusive, innovative, oncology CME programs are available in several formats, thus providing learners with educational opportunities that best suit their learning style. For example, Integrated Oncology Learning and Communities of Oncology Practice were developed to take advantage of innovative methodologies to allow for collaborative and blended learning whereby interaction is stimulated, learning is fostered, new knowledge is gained, and best practices are identified and shared.
Integrated Oncology Learning—Pathways to Practice Improvement: A curriculum-based program consisting of one or more modules comprising related activities developed by a diverse team of experts in a variety of presentation formats.
Communities of Oncology Practice: A series of CME-certified activities combining e-learning technology with instructor-led training and providing opportunities for educational activities and social networking at the local and regional level.
OncoLogue™: An online learning series initiating dialogue between learners and leading oncology experts
Interactive case studies: CME-designated, online-exclusive interactive clinical scenarios
Virtual Tumor Boards and Grand Rounds: Developed in partnership with leading universities, associations, networks, and practices, an online learning series patterned after the traditional academic live format to provide the learner with highly focused expert updates and commentaries on current standards of therapy and evolving cancer care.
e-Lerts: Brief discussions by experts of key presentations from society meetings available as audio recordings with optional slide sets.
Expert Interviews: Video presentations of dialogues by experienced faculty on the practical applications of and challenges brought about by recently reported practice-changing data.
On-Demand Webcasts and Podcasts: Archived videos from live events available on the Web or downloadable and portable.
CME-designated newsletters:
Meeting highlights:
Multimedia publications, including CD-ROMs, from PER meetings
In 2009, PER will provide over 100 live meetings comprising an impressive portfolio of programs ranging from international congresses to local community-based meetings, including:
Twenty-two multiday CME-designated meetings with 40-50 faculty and 8-15 supporters dedicated to educating health care providers on various diseases, treatments, and management as well as other topics of current interest:
Fifty-one US-based regional 1/2- to 1-day CME-designated meetings with 10-15 faculty and 6-12 supporters
Ten international 1/2- to 1-day meetings
Sole-supported satellite meetings with optional live interactive Webcasts, including over 15 symposia at major congresses and global meetings
PER offers 2 distinct types of Local Meetings: