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All of GeneEd's catalog and custom-developed
scientific e-learning is certified by CMA for Category I accreditation,
allowing all physicians, nurses and other health care professionals
to complete GeneEd Life Science E-Learning for full CME credits.
San Francisco, CA, October 1, 2002—GeneEd, Inc., the
leading provider of advanced e-Learning solutions for the life science
industry (including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare,
and medical instruments and devices), today announced that it has
received Continuing Medical Education (CME) Category One accreditation
from the California Medical Association. All of GeneEd's catalog
and custom-developed scientific e-learning is now certified by CMA
for Category I accreditation, allowing all physicians, nurses and
other health care professionals to receive full CME credits for
completion of GeneEd Life Science E-Learning.
The Medical Board of California requires licensed physicians to
complete at least 25 hours of approved Category One or other acceptable
CME per year, and must complete at least 100 hours of Category One
CME every four years. Nurses and other healthcare professionals
are also subject to rigorous CME and other continuing education
requirements by their individual governing boards.
"GeneEd is honored to have had the opportunity to have its
scientific e-learning assessed via the California Medical Association's
rigorous CME accreditation process, and to receive the CMA's highest
level of accreditation", said Dr. Salil Patel, Chief Science
Officer for GeneEd. "This CME Category One accreditation from
the CMA, as well as GeneEd's new Therapeutic Area curricula, further
exemplifies GeneEd's scientific and medical expertise, as well as
GeneEd's experience and expertise in educating Life Science and
Healthcare industry personnel in complex scientific subject areas".
GeneEd delivers catalog and custom Life Science E-Learning courseware
in major medical and therapeutic areas (including the Cardiovascular
System, the Respiratory System, and the Gastrointestinal System,
in biopharmaceutical technology (including genomics, bioinformatics,
microarray informatics, and computer-assisted drug design), and
in regulatory and compliance subjects (including Good Laboratory
Practices, Good Clinical Practices, and Serious Adverse Events reporting).
GeneEd's Life Science E- Learning has also been developed to allow
simple technical integration of the courses into a pharmaceutical
organization's Learning Management System (LMS), and all GeneEd
E-Learning courses are SCORM 1.2 compliant.
About GeneEd
GeneEd, Inc. was founded in 1997 to provide life science and healthcare
e-learning solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, instrument
and medical device, and hospital/HMO industries. GeneEd's Life Science
industry customers include AstraZeneca, Pfizer, the ALZA division
of Johnson&Johnson, Celera, Bio-Rad, and IBM Life Sciences,
amongst many others(http://www.geneed.com/customers.html).
GeneEd utilizes the best life science content, combined with advanced
e-learning development technology, to rapidly create basic and advanced
curricula in the areas of genomics, therapeutic area training (for
clinical research, product development, and sales and marketing
teams), computer assisted drug design, drug discovery and development,
pharmacogenomics and clinical genomics, bioinformatics and microarray
informatics, and therapeutic and diagnostic products. GeneEd, Inc.
is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Visit http://www.GeneEd.com
for additional information about GeneEd and its courseware.
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