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Features
About
This Course
Created by Peter Jensen, MD, a
practicing physician and expert
coding instructor, Challenger
Fundamentals: Coding and Compliance
is designed to take you through
every step of the documentation
process from patient history to
medical decision making. Using real
life clinical examples, you will
learn that it's not the quantity of
the documentation that matters but
the quality. Challenger
Fundamentals: Coding and Compliance
is the only physician developed
maintenance curriculum designed
directly for physicians in practice.
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CME
Credit
When this stimulating education
on physician coding techniques is
completed, the typical physician can
realize a 25-40% improvement in
auditing and billing outcomes, fewer
chart rejections, and a greatly
reduced risk of investigational
audit. Enhance your mastery of these
subjects through challenging
assessment quizzes, and also earn up
to24 AMA Category 1 CME credits.
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Topical
Pretest
Running short on time? Not sure
where to begin? Challenger
Fundamentals: Coding and Compliance
includes topical pretests to help
concentrate your review to the areas
you want to study. Spend less time
focusing on topics you are familiar
with and more time in areas of
weakness.
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General
Features
Board-style Q&A
Review and Knowledge Bank
Self-Assess and Strengthen
Knowledge: Every Challenger
product is built as a rigorous
review course providing clinical
exam standard Q&A with rich
remediation text and supporting
materials.
Proven Methodology: Our
progammed learning progression is a
proven system that enhances
retention so you are prepared for
your examinations.
Elegant Interactivity:
On-screen display is efficient and
easy to use. Navigate to specific
content quickly.
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Focus-In Testing (Find and Fix
Weaknesses)
Focused Remediation:
Topic-specific learning modules
provide media-rich information and
practice-review-test workflow.
Find and Fix Weak Areas:
Our comprehensive courses provide
"three tier testing" - the
abililty to pretest over a broad
area of specialty knowledge, receive
information on areas of embedded
weakness, remediate specifically on
topics of exposed weakness, then
prepare all knowledge through a
re-usable, board-style exam
simulation.
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On-Demand Standard-of-Care
Clinical Information
Clinical Reference: Our
courses seamlessly integrate
clinical text, imagery, and
interactive, boards-style questions
and answers into one easy-to-use
reference, review, and assessment
experience. Indeed, our clients have
said that reviewing our Q&A
materials provides a more practical
review than reading a textbook!
Searchability: Whether you
are looking for a specific topic,
collection of images, or specific
phrase, Challenger's Internet-based
search engine allows you to locate
references in seconds. Launch right
into the clinical section you wish
to see.
Tailored Content: We
deliver complete and accurate
state-of-the-art clinical
information. You can reduce your
risk and remain current in your
career with our cutting-edge new
material covering key topics that
fit your specialty.
Outside Sources: Looking
to further explore a peculiar
presentation? Searching medication
effects for a peculiar case? Our
courses also offer live links to
PubMed, Med-Line, and other outside
resources allowing you to easily
refresh your knowledge or research
your cases. There is no other
comparable peer-reviewed product
providing both comprehensive review
and the most up-to-date information
on standards of care in all of our
material.
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Anywhere Portability and Flexible
Access
Your Place, Your Pace:
Work in a manner that suits your
needs. Don't have time to drive or
fly to that Boards Prep seminar?
Have it come to you.
Online and Offline: When
you purchase any Challenger program,
you will gain an online learning
portal account at
www.challengercme.com, through which
you can access your coursework
material via any computer with an
Internet connection. You will
receive a CD-ROM containing the same
content and working course for those
times where you are without an
Internet connection.
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Automatic Content Updates and
Enhancements
Accurate Information, Updated
Continuously: Challenger prides
itself on staying up-to-date in all
aspects of medicine. All our courses
are routinely peer-reviewed and
continuously updated. Our content
review cycle is aggresive, allowing
us to keep our content ahead of that
found in textbooks.
Upgrade Savings: Future
upgrades are provided to Challenger
clients at a fraction of the
standard retail cost. This way, as
the face of medicine changes, our
valued customers can
cost-effectively keep their
coursework and reference library
current. Of course, the best value
Challenger offers is the Challenger
Lifetime Subscription (CLS) — all
products and upgrades for a one-time
enrollment fee.
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Media-Richness: Clinical Images,
Charts, and More
Visual Assets:
Image-richness has always been one
of the hallmarks of Challenger
programs and all courses are
designed to deliver
"after-study" value by
allowing easy access to the imagery
and other support media found in
Q&A coursework. Our
comprehensive courses, not to
mention our gold-standard integrated
textbooks, come packed with
thousands of high-resolution
clinical photographs, radiographs,
diagnostic illustrations and charts,
videos, and much more.
Education in Mind: We also
encourage our patrons to make use of
the images we supply for private and
clinical educational use. We only
ask that you cite Challenger
Corporation's course as your source.
Great for faculty lectures, resident
training, and your clinical
publications.
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Built-in, Multi-Year CME Credits
Earn While Your Learn:
Challenger issues CME certificates
directly from our office, saving you
the hassle of earning CME on someone
else's schedule and the travel
expense of attending remote CME
events. Save you spare time for
family and friends. Just complete
your coursework and mail or fax your
printed scores or submit them
directly via your online Challenger
account. Your scores and evaluation
form (required by all accredited CME
sponsors) are processed immediately.
Challenger works closely with our
prestigious institutional joint
sponsors to maintain the most
rewarding educational experience
possible.
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Free All-Support
We'll be with you every step
of the way: Whether your
question relates to technical
function, content, or CME
processing, our staff is on standby
during normal business hours to
assist you for FREE. You can always
reach us between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
CST from Monday through Friday,
except on national holidays.
Quick-help forms are also provided
online for after-hours reporting,
which we proactively address upon
the next business day. In short, any
problem will be diagnosed and
treated quickly.
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