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AnesthesiaFile® Goes Digital
In a continuing effort to better provide up-to-date continuing education to its healthcare audience, the Dannemiller Foundation is pleased to announce that its highly acclaimed monthly abstract notebook AnesthesiaFile® is now available online in Portable Document Format (PDF).
AnesthesiaFile® is a subscription-based CME activity that contains 30 expertly written abstracted articles by anesthesia thought-leaders from many of the world’s most important and prestigious medical journals. "For years, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and other healthcare professionals have benefited from these monthly articles that highlight the newest information about their specialty," said Executive Director Scott Bonnallie. "By providing these modules in an easy-to-download format, we’re helping busy professionals read these articles wherever they may be without the hassle of carrying around a bunch of paper," he continued.
The Dannemiller Foundation also believes that by providing a download option for these monthly articles it is doing its part in reducing any environmental impact printing thousands of sheets of paper causes. This isn’t the first time the Dannemiller Foundation has sought better ways of distributing its plethora of learning activities to healthcare professionals. At its Intensive Review of the Specialty of Pain Medicine: Pain Board Oriented Review Course in July 2008, attendees received a USB flash drive with the conference’s entire course syllabus. "Considering that the syllabus is about 500 pages long, the flash drives were a huge hit with our audience. Since then, we’ve provided pain board questions in the same format and are continuing to find other unique ways to deliver content to professionals when they need it and how they want it," explained Bonnallie.
Additionally, the Dannemiller Foundation offers continuing education through its specialty-based websites www.pain.com and www.anesthesiologyonline.com. "As new technologies become available and as our healthcare professionals share an interest in receiving CME in new ways, the Dannemiller Foundation will continue to provide excellent education in the most expedient and efficient manner while being conscious of our social responsibility to the environment," said Bonnallie.
Nurse Anesthetists Convene in San Antonio
The Riverwalk was the destination for more than 150 nurse anesthetists the first week of December. It was the Annual Fall Nurse Anesthetist Review, Update, and Regional Anesthesia Hands-on Workshop, which has been organized by the Dannemiller Foundation for 30 years now. This is the only course that allows for the opportunity to earn 40 continuing education credits upon completion of the entire program, plus an additional eight pharmacology credits.
The meeting provides nurse anesthetists the chance to hear from an array of experts who present on such topics like current clinical challenges, regional techniques, legal and professional issues, as well as pediatric and obstetric anesthesia. Next year’s event will be from November 30 – December 5, 2009, in San Antonio, Texas. Click here to see a complete listing of upcoming meetings hosted by the Dannemiller Foundation.
New Advisory Board Members Join Pain.com
We’re pleased to announce that four exceptional physicians have agreed to serve on the Pain.com Advisory Board during 2009. Among them, we have a pediatric pain specialist, an interventional pain physician, a physical medicine and rehabilitation pain management specialist, and an anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician. Click here to meet our Advisory Board members.
Dannemiller Foundation Launches CEvillage
The Dannemiller Foundation is proud to announce its newest educational portal, CEvillage.com. CEvillage offers a variety of certified activities to keep healthcare professionals on the cutting edge of their fields while earning valuable CE credit. New educational programs are added constantly, and registration is free. Currently, there is a series on treating COPD posted on the site, as well as a webcast aimed at oncology nurses. We’re excited about this new opportunity to bring quality education to healthcare professionals and encourage you to spread the news to your colleagues! Click here to visit ceVillage.com.
Dannemiller Goes "Green"
Dannemiller is committed to promoting a clean sustainable environment. It is our responsibility as global citizens to reuse, reduce, and recycle. As a result, course content for our meetings will be made available on a USB drive, rather than printed speaker slides - thereby reducing our paper usage by over 200,000 pages per meeting. Environmental consideration has always been in Dannemiller's business practice, and we will continue looking for more ways to offer the same great content while reducing the environmental impact.
Staying Ahead of the Pack
The Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation was awarded Accreditation with Commendation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) on December 1, 2006. This is the highest level of accreditation that the ACCME can award and carries a full 6-year accreditation period for the Dannemiller Foundation. The ACCME awarded the Dannemiller Foundation exemplary compliance ratings for our Mission Statement, our Needs Assessments, our Activity Evaluations and our Organizational Framework. The Dannemiller Foundation's proprietary Outcomes Study process and our independent Clinical Content Review were specifically cited as innovative, successful and exemplary in the ACCME survey report. This award places the Dannemiller Foundation as one of only 8% of all providers who achieve this level of accreditation.