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About This Course
Challenger Fundamentals: Infectious Disease provides
physicians with the most up-to-date information for diagnosis
and treatment of infectious diseases. The course provides
current information on new and emerging diseases, such as SARS,
as well as diseases such as HIV/AIDS and infections of the
cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal systems.
Coverage also includes subjects such as tick-borne illnesses,
traveler's infections, and parasitic infections.
In medicine the best tools are the most versatile and
easiest to use. If you're one of the thousands of physicians
seeking clinical review, CME credit hours, or a quick and
modern clinical reference resource, wouldn't you like a single
tool to fulfill all of your needs? Look no further. Challenger
Fundamentals: Infectious Disease can provide the resources and
functionality you need in one, cost-effective, easy-to-use,
go-anywhere package.
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Large, High Resolution Image Bank
Full-color, high-resolution imagery has always been one of
the hallmarks of Challenger programs.
Every image is assigned to the appropriate standard-of-care
topic, and most can be enlarged for detailed examination and
observation. Labels on imagery, diagrams, and ultrasound
videos can be switched on and off for quick reference and
self-testing.
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CME Credit
Challenger Fundamentals: Infectious Disease provides the
physician with extremely up-to-date information regarding
HIV/AIDS, SARS, and more. All content is continuously reviewed
and updated in conjunction with the Infectious Disease and
Emergency Medicine faculty at the George Washington University
and Vanderbilt University Schools of Medicine. Enhance your
mastery of these subjects through challenging assessment
quizzes and also earn up to 22 AMA Category 1 CME credits from
the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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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 ability 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!
Search ability: 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 aggressive, 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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