Continue Medical Education & Web 2.0 = CME 2.0?

[Miguel Cabrer]

Hi all, I have been in some discussions lately and would like to get the opinion from experts like you. Continue Medical Education is a high cost activity (conferences, congresses, travelling). There are a number of website offering elearning but are one way training.

I am actually running a platform called medting.com where doctors can share clinical cases and medical images and dicuss them. One doctor from Mayo Clinic was saying to me that we could use the platform to create a CME 2.0 platform.

Basically, is doctors upload clinical cases, others discuss them, this means medical activity. If Medting can provide a report of activity (hours dedicated to Medting) and one acredited organization can certiffy and convert the hours to credits, then it has value.

Other colleague told me that Africa is providing medical education credits to doctors that participate in telemedicine network. At the end is a way to exchange real discussion between worldwide experts.

Would like to check with this community if you see it has sense for us to include this functionalities at Medting.

[Anne Marie Cunningham]

Hello Miguel
This sounds interesting. Can you tell me more about what Medting is?
Thanks
Anne Marie

[Miguel Cabrer]

Sure,

Medting (http://medting.com) is a website for doctors to share medical images, videos and clinical cases. Clinical cases are indexed by using SNOMED, also integrated with PubMed and Medting provides automatic translation in any language. Medting is very powerful with image managemenet. Content can be commented, shared or valued by the medting community.

The plataform can be used to store relevant clinical cases, academic / teaching database, telemedicine (by creating private cases) and connect doctors from anywhere around a medical discussion.

Medting is free to use for doctors.Brochure here: http://blog.medting.com/brochure/

We would like to incorporate the capability of giving a certificate of activity to our users. We do know the activity they perform but we are not an accredited organization to provide certificates or even CME credits. But yes, CME 2.0 will also come.

So we see this as an opportunitty to find CME accredited organizations interested in creating a partnership with Medting. A win-win relationship can be easily established.

Regards

[Heidi Allen]

Hi Miguel
Medting looks like an excellent site, and I like the fact its free to use and it's content provided by peers. Providing certification would be a logical step -- makes CME easier for Doctors to document and I suspect we will see more sites accross a variety of health professions providing CME points. It may take some time for some Doctors to begin using sites such as yours but it will surely come as information becomes more accessible and part of a Doctors daily life.

[Miguel Cabrer]

thanks Heidi for your feedback. Yes, Medting is looking for CME Partner that want to benefit from the content to provide credits. If you know someone interested please tell.

Regards

[Lawrence Sherman]

Miguel - long time no speak! We are still interested in providing the credit in the US, and have a network of providers around the world (Europe, Asia, Australia) to extend the credit globally. It is a matter of documentation to insure that the requirements for the provision of credit are met.

[Miguel Cabrer]

Great Lawrence, let's move to the next step then. We now have an office in Boston with a CEO, Barry Chaiken, so there is an easy possibility to meet in NY with you.

Please put me an email and I put you both in touch.

Regards
Lawrence Sherman said:

Miguel - long time no speak! We are still interested in providing the credit in the US, and have a network of providers around the world (Europe, Asia, Australia) to extend the credit globally. It is a matter of documentation to insure that the requirements for the provision of credit are met.