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March 15, 2006
Boston, March X – Nurse practitioners can now earn AANP contact hours for many online eCME programs offered by Pri-Med at no cost on www.pri-med.com. Pri-Med is the world's leading accredited provider of continuing medical education.
Pri-Med Online now offers NPs an online continuing medical education curriculum extending across multiple therapeutic conditions commonly encountered by primary care practitioners, such as anxiety, depression, diabetes, and migraine. These programs and others are now approved by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) for AANP contact hours, in addition to AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Pri-Med Online eCME activities includes patient case studies, slide lectures, expert perspectives and clinical reviews.
“Pri-Med has long recognized the importance of NPs in primary care,” Alyce Kulklinski, RN, NP and Editorial Director of Pri-Med Institute said. “Today there are more than 100 thousand NPs in practice across the US, and the federal government projects that this number will increase by fifty percent in the next five years. NPs frequently order diagnostic tests and, in 45 states, they have prescription writing privileges.
“Nearly 50 thousand NPs have participated in live Pri-Med meetings to date,” Alyce Kulklinski added. “The eCME programs on Pri-Med Online will now provide NPs unlimited, no-cost access to accredited continuing medical education, as well as an expanding and diverse curriculum.” For further information, visit www.pri-med.com. To see all activities certified for AANP credit, click on ‘See All eCME Activities’ from the home page and select ‘AANP’ from the ‘Credit Type’ drop-down list.
Information provided by Pri-Med. Pri-Med is a leading provider of high quality multi channel medical education for primary care practitioners and specialists. With over 250 hours of online eCME activities available within Condition Centers, including Patient Case Studies, Expert Perspectives, Clinical Reviews and Slide Lecture Series coupled with a nationwide network of over 150 live programs, Pri-Med brings the most relevant, timely and actionable advances in patient care to practicing clinicians across the U.S.
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